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Date:      Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:49:09 +1100
From:      Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
To:        Dennis Favro <scqdaf@globalserve.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: General Productivity apps for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19981203104909.08379@welearn.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <v04102f00b28b67c8f304@[10.1.0.5]>; from Dennis Favro on Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 04:57:52PM -0500
References:  <v04102f00b28b67c8f304@[10.1.0.5]>

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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*-


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