From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Dec 2 15:49:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22114 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:49:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22102 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:49:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA01199; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:49:14 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19981203104909.08379@welearn.com.au> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:49:09 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Dennis Favro Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Re: General Productivity apps for FreeBSD References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Dennis Favro on Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 04:57:52PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 04:57:52PM -0500, Dennis Favro wrote: > What general productivity applications are available for FreeBSD? (word > processing, spreadsheets, etc) > > All I've been able to find are StarOffice 5.0 and (eventually) Corel > WordPerfect 8.0 -- both for Linux. I'd rather not wait months for > WordPerfect, and I'd rather not download seventy megabytes worth of > StarOffice 5.0 to find it doesn't work. Then don't :-) it doesn't work. Check what version is in our ports collection. If you go to http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html you can search freebsd-questions for what people have been saying about these products. I like plan and xmbase-grok too, check out the packages or ports for them and others. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message