From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 15 13:27:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C6137B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from windmill-en0.garlic.com (windmill-en0.garlic.com [208.195.160.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6D243E4A for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:27:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from madriax@garlic.com) Received: from pookie (155.sm7.dialup.garlic.net [216.139.3.155]) by windmill-en0.garlic.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g8FKRMZ63742; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:27:22 -0700 From: "Pookie" To: "'Miguel Mendez'" , "'Pat Lashley'" , Subject: RE: Alternatives to Open(Star)Office Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:26:52 -0700 Message-ID: <001601c25cf6$481aeeb0$0100a8c0@pookie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <20020915205357.0faa3dfb.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok. Another question. Are there 2 different versions I can install? I know theres /usr/ports/editors/openoffice. If one looks at the dependencies it requires jdk, which requires Linux_base. IS there something im missing -----Original Message----- From: Miguel Mendez [mailto:flynn@energyhq.homeip.net] Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 11:54 AM To: Pookie Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alternatives to Open(Star)Office On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:36:40 -0700 "Pookie" wrote: > I'm looking into getting office software. I don't really like the idea > of using OpenOffice to do the fact I have to get linux_base installed. I > want to be able to create PowerPoint's, .doc, basically a rich suite of > software. Anyone know of some alternatives? OpenOffice has been running natively for a while: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk NetBSD :: Unix without hype To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message