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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:47:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   office suite experiences?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203271834420.11916-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>

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Hello All

I'm rebuilding a box for my Mom - she likes KDE and is up for a dual-boot 
on her PC. I'm considering both FreeBSD and Linux for her. If I go with 
Linux, I'll buy her a copy of Anyware Office as I use it every day and I 
think it will handle anything she can throw at it, including xls/doc/ppt 
files.

I'd rather go FreeBSD/KDE/Anyware but I can't seem to get Anyware to work:

 [johnnyb@picard johnnyb]$ /usr/local/vistasource/applix 
 /usr/local/vistasource/axdata/axmain: error in loading shared libraries: 
 libgdk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
 directory
 /usr/local/vistasource/axdata/axmain: Connection timed out
 [johnnyb@picard johnnyb]$ 

I have the linux emulation installed, 

 picard# pkg_info | grep -i linux
 linux-netscape-communicator-4.79 Linux Netscape Communicator suite
 linux_base-6.1      The base set of packages needed in Linux mode
 picard# 

and Mozilla runs like a charm. While I'm hacking this out, I'd like to 
know if anyone has any experience (good or bad) working with Anyware (not 
Applixware 4.4x, - I use that on AIX at work. Anyware == Applix 5.0 I 
think) and also what everybody (or anybody) thought of the StarOffice 6.0 
beta under FreeBSD. OpenOffice for fbsd seems to be a work in progress? 

All the fbsd/applix references I see on the net are for applix-4.42 which 
is a good app, but not what I want. I'm going to try the SO6/OpenOffice 
ports as soon as I can, maybe tonight.

Thanks, and sorry for the long post.

JB


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