From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 15 22:28:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E7D37B409 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:28:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sat, 15 Sep 2001 23:23:25 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Alvin Sim Subject: Re: Re[2]: StarOffice 5.2 & Netscape 6.x Stability Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 23:23:04 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20010914183021.I7403@crb-web.com> <01091422502700.16877@i8k.babbleon.org> <1824982915.20010915184351@yahoo.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1824982915.20010915184351@yahoo.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01091523230401.16877@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On Saturday 15 September 2001 06:43, Alvin Sim wrote: > 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. Yes. Built from the port. It works great. I actually have the CD (it was a freebie at the SAS User's Group conference, of all places), but I decided to install it from the port. Since I have a cable modem, a 900Mz CPU, a 45G harddrive, and 512M of RAM, there is little reason not to do everything from ports. In fact, I have built my entire non-base system from ports except for two (I don't recall which now) that were dependencies that wouldn't build from ports, and even there I downloaded the packages rather than bother looking for the CD . . . I did my initial install and one rescue from the CD set, but that's all I've used it for. > ~as -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org --------------------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! <------------------------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message