Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 07:42:11 -0600 From: Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com> To: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Gary Roberts <garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au>, chad@DCFinc.com, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 Message-ID: <3922A1B3.368FC0AA@hagenhomes.com> References: <200005152346.QAA11498@freeway.dcfinc.com> <200005160032.KAA09256@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au> <20000516195140.I233@parish>
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Mark Ovens wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:32:49AM +1000, Gary Roberts wrote: > > Chad R. Larson writes :- > > > > > As I recall, David Gilbert wrote: > > > > I must say that I'm dissapointed that I can't run it. > > > > > > This is older hat, but I've had WordPerfect 8 running on a > > > 2.2.8-STABLE system under Linux emulation since Dec, 1998. > > > > > > Has anyone tried to evaluate pros and cons of the various office > > > suites? > > > > > > 1) Applixware - native > > > 2) StarOffice - linux > > > 3) WordPerfect - linux > > > 4) anything - Wine > > > 5) ??? > > > > I notice that people on this thread have been cc'ing to `emulators' and > > `stable'. There doesn't seem to be an emulators list - it is `emulation' > > or `freebsd-emulation' according to Majordomo. This thread probably > > belongs on emulation so the folks there have been missing it so far. > > > > To answer Chad's question from my perspective, to capture more of the > > desktop rather than server market, FreeBSD needs a workable `office' > > solution. I was hoping staroffice might be that. I have had my secretary > > evaluating it with a view to weaning her off W98/Office97. Here is a > > summary of results. > > > > So as not to create too much of an initial shock, we installed the W98 > > version of staroffice about 4-6 months ago and tried to use it as much > > as possible. She reported that the suite was pretty much capable of all > > the things she needed and was fairly easy to get used to, BUT:- > > > > 1. It was slow, noticeably slower than she was used to. > > 2. It caused W98 to crash more frequently when she was trying to `push'. > > 3. She wasn't able to produce documents that our clients could open > > correctly under Office97. Since we send a lot of documents as email > > attachments, this became the killer and so we haven't moved to > > `phase 2' which was to install it under a decent OS which should have > > cured the crashes. Some of this will hopefully be taken care of after the source code is released in June. Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com > > > > > At the moment I've basically given up - she uses W98 and I use FreeBSD. > > I would be very interested in other peoples experiences. Perhaps > > `emulation' might be the better forum to do this. > > > > I try to use it at work (under NT) but it can't handle "forms" in Word > docs properly, which is a problem. OTOH, it does a better job of > exporting Expel spreadsheets to HTML than Expel 97 does :) > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Gary Roberts (garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au) > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > -- > ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX > ________________________________________________________________ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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