From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 28 19:46:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17870 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 19:46:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (tc-18.acadiau.ca [131.162.2.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17748 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 19:45:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.2) with SMTP id XAA23792; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 23:44:43 -0300 (ADT) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 23:44:42 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Roddie Hasan , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice Newsgroups... In-Reply-To: <2378.893815787@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Yep, the chances of StarDivision doing a native port are close > to infinitismal (I've talked to them) but we could REALLY do a much > better job of advertising the fact that the Linux version works > just fine. I was reading through the newsgroup today, playing catch up mostly, and one of the postings from one of their "internal guys" commented on wanting to port to "various Unices (incl Linux)", which I find comical... ...on the one hand, it makes it almost sound like Linux is one of many...but, I've yet to find a *non* Unix port :( > > > ... but all the talk in the Unix group(s) are Linux related...I'm > > > trying to throw *something* in there FreeBSD (like, asking for a port?), > > > but I'm just one person... > > > > > > > FYI - I just downloaded the Linux version of StarOffice 4.0 (45 megs), > > gunzip/untar'd it, and ran the setup program. Its interface is similar to > > a Windows program setup. I did the minimum install (75 megs), and it runs > > beautifully under FreeBSD 3.0-current with linux_lib installed. > > > > Roddie > > > > <>> Roddie Hasan - roddie@krweb.net - http://www.krweb.net/roddie > > <>> "Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message