From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 15 19:50:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp016.mail.yahoo.com (smtp016.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 035F637B401 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:50:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from j214.kch19.jaring.my (HELO acidic.ars.org) (161.142.45.228) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 2001 02:50:51 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 18:43:51 +0800 From: Alvin Sim X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53o) Reply-To: Alvin Sim Organization: n/a X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1824982915.20010915184351@yahoo.co.uk> To: Brian T.Schellenberger Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: StarOffice 5.2 & Netscape 6.x Stability In-Reply-To: <01091422502700.16877@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <20010914183021.I7403@crb-web.com> <01091422502700.16877@i8k.babbleon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Saturday, September 15, 2001, 10:50:27 AM, Brian T . Schellenberger wrote: > On Friday 14 September 2001 19:30, Wayne Cuddy wrote: >> I am getting ready to switch my Linux server to a FreeBSD 4.3 system. My >> only concern is still being able to rely on StarOffice 5.2 and Netscape >> 6.1. Are these stable using the linux binary compat support? Does Mozilla >> build natively on FreeBSD? > Based on my experience, the answers are "yes", "probably, since Mozilla works i assume you have it downloaded and built from the ports rather than building/installing it from the 5.2 CD? i have never had _any_ success getting StarOffice 5.2 (from the CD) to install and run in FreeBSD 4.X-S but i suppose it would (although i havent tried it yet) work from the ports. > well," and "yes", respectively: > - StarOffice works great under FreeBSD. Linux Netscape 4.7 works better > under FreeBSD/emulated than under actual Linux, and FreeBSD deals better with > the "memory hog bug," so emulated doesn't necessarily mean inferior. Plus > emulation is a misnomer anyway, but that's a topic for another day. StarOffice 5.1[a] works great, yes. 5.2, well, like i mentioned above, does not. > - I use Mozilla native to FreeBSD and Netscape 4.7 Linux, for max > compatibility in the one case and stability in the other. > - Mozilla builds natively on FreeBSD; I for one haven't gotten java to work; > I'm sure it's possible but not as easy as using 4.7 Linux Netscape for pages > that need java. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Wayne >> >> ~as -- Alvin bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message