From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 3 20:52:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA23165 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 20:52:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA23160 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 20:52:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id PAA10523 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 15:22:47 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199703040452.PAA10523@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Nice words about StarOffice To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 15:22:47 +1030 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just to add to the general assent; whilst SO still has some serious problems (possibly related to the Linux Motif libraries and 24-bit displays), and some annoying idiosyncracies, the wordprocessor is more than competent. You'll want a healthy system (I was using a P100/64), and a little patience while it starts, but once running it's quite useful. (I spent half an hour or so quite happily dinking a 100-page MS Word document before realising that I was running a Linux LKM with DEBUG defined 8) If people are vaguely interested, I'd be happy to put my installer up for general grabbing, however I would _really_ like someone with a Linux machine to do a _full_ install and then give me an ls -lR and preferably a recursive md5 of the whole thing installed, as the installer falls a little short of getting it quite right. Note also that the current version expires in a month or so, but I'm quite happy to repeat the process for the released version if/when someone can get me a full listing of installed files, as I hope to convince the powers to invest in a couple of seats worth. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[