From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jun 28 14:40:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12980 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:40:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from photon.soltec.net (photon.soltec.net [206.148.208.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12974 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 14:40:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlr@soltec.net) Received: from soltec.net (ppp51.cu.soltec.net [206.148.209.51]) by photon.soltec.net (8.8.8/8.8.9) with ESMTP id QAA29576 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:40:42 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3596B824.3A6E44A2@soltec.net> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:39:48 -0500 From: Jeff X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Star Office References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tim Gerchmez wrote: > Greetings to all, > I have heard of this product & visited their web site, but I couldn't read the language. Would you mind,please, letting me know how it works out for you? Thanks in advance. Kindest Regards, Jeff Rogers jlr@soltec.net http://www.soltec.net/~jlr > I've decided to give StarOffice a try and am downloading the package > version at the moment (everyone should take a look at www.freebsd.org/ports > - I was surprised to see that for just about every port, there's a package > offered as well. For this reason, I no longer keep the ports collection on > my machine. Why bother, if you can download a package instead? The only > thing about it is, some of the packages are newer than the standard ones > offered with 2.2.6, and require updated libraries as well that AREN'T part > of the standard 2.2.6 packages. That can create dependency problems. Nice > to have the newest programs, but often hard to find the newest libraries to > go with them. FreeBSD may not be a mix and match OS, but the software that > runs on it should be able to be mixed and matched (just like you can > upgrade to Office 97 from Office 95 on Win95), if care is taken with > dependencies. > > Tim > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez > Date: 28-Jun-98 > Time: 13:31:22 > > This message was sent by XFMail under Fvwm2 and FREEBSD. > My personal website is at http://www.serv.net/~fewtch/index.html > Take a look if you have the time - something for everyone there. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message