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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:22:22 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: office suite experiences?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203280821220.12103-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020328093636.S1448-100000@small.pukruppa.de>

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On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:

> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:49:39 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: office suite experiences?
> 
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, John Bleichert wrote:
> > 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.
> > ...
> > 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?
> > ...
> > I'm going to try the SO6/OpenOffice
> > ports as soon as I can, maybe tonight.
> OpenOffice641c binaries for linux do run with linux_base-7 .
> Some other linux apps don't seem to like this emulator, but
> linux-mozilla (and JAVA) will work ok.
> 
> If you whish to stay on the safe side, you should install
> StarOffice5.2 .
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Uli.
> 
I used SO5.2 for a while in school and didn't like it at all. Then I 
discovered Applix and was happy with it. This box is for my Mom, I'm not 
giving here SO5.2 hehe ...

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