From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 00:03:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA02892 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:03:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@haiti-104.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA02876 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:03:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA27980; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:02:45 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:02:42 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Charlie Roots cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELETING WINDOWS 95, Please Help In-Reply-To: <19971215045744.16336.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Charlie Roots wrote: > I need BADLY a descent and FREE word procesor to help me write my > essays, and don't tell me xword becuase it is highly unstable and > always crashing, and Formating is ugly. > I also need help on Printing Graphics on FreeBSD, I don't mean I will > be printing Images or pictures, no Just formatted Documents, on a DOT > MATRIX printer. Caldera (www.caldera.com) puts out StarOffice, which is a comercial Linux product, but has a free trial (and/or educational liscence). So far I like it and its interface, but it is horridly slow but reads and writes Word6, rtf, and a few other formats. It reminds me of a 486/20 running Win95 (I'm using a p180). It takes like three minutes (even with the latest Linux emulation hacks) to start up. WordPerfect has a Linux port of Wp 6 and 7 (I'm downloading 7 at the moment), and it has its own printer drivers, the *nix ports are at www.sdcorp.com. There's also ApplixWare. If you print to a postscript file, then you can use ghostscript to print to any epson compatable dot matrix printer (like my kxp-1124), albeit at a very low resolution (my kxp does 360 squared, but epsons don't so...). There's also emacs *grin*. I for one would love a native FreeBSD port of some decent word processor. So far I'm wishing I still had Win95 for text processing. > Please FreeBSD guys, Help me to get rid of Windows 95. - alex