Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:04:21 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.org Cc: Tim Tretyak <timothy@umc.com.ua> Subject: OpenOffice for FreeBSD [was Re: linux-base 6.2 vs linux-base 7] Message-ID: <20011126210421.A9144@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20011124142744.GA651@leviathan.inethouston.net>; from dwcjr@inethouston.net on Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 08:27:44AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111241305210.876-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> <3BFF8750.8090109@rain.fr> <20011124052911.A29638@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20011124142744.GA651@leviathan.inethouston.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 12:41:04PM +0100, Tom Fischer wrote: >> I installed staroffice 6 with the ports mechanism, and I had the >> same problem with the dialog boxes not appearing. I was running >> afterstep 1.8.9 as my wm (XFree86 4.1.0). When I switched to twm, >> the dialog box problem went away... > > Does anyone here have any information on the native port of > OpenOffice? I've been trying to correspond with the person > listed as in charge of the port to offer assistance, but I get > no replies. I finally got a response from the Sun engineer in Germany who's supposed to be overseeing the FreeBSD native port. He sounds like he could use some help. How many of us would like to pitch in? I'm gonna... +--------------- | Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:00:22 +0200 | From: "Tim Tretyak" <timothy@umc.com.ua> | Organization: UMC | User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011027 | X-Accept-Language: ru, en, uk | MIME-Version: 1.0 | To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> | Subject: Re: OpenOffice for FreeBSD | References: <4.2.2.20011124073531.00a63b30@mailhost.dcfinc.com> | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit | X-UIDL: 905e20e37e188ee36db08aa8ad32dc92 | Status: RO | Content-Length: 1316 | Lines: 45 | | Chad R. Larson wrote: | |> What is the status of the native port of OpenOffice to FreeBSD? I |> know several people who are running StarOffice 5.2 for Linux under |> the FreeBSD Linux emulator, but the native port seems to be stalled. |> |> I've written several times to offer hardware and/or software support, |> but have received no response. |> |> Are you still active in the project? | | | Sorry for my possible silence - OpenOffice FBSD port now under active | development, but only by two developers - me and Carlos Pantiago (you | can see his email in dev@ and porting@ mail list. All of as works for | OO as hobby, and, in general, we don't have much time to spend for | this. :( | | Currently we don't needs hardware support - our computers is not so bad, | but we ugly needs more porters with piece of free time... | | So - all porters are welcome, but IMHO alpha quality of OO itself and | pre-pre-alpha quality of FBSD port makes no sense to recruite testers. | May be after three-four month... | | Sorry for my bad english, | With best regards, | Tim Tretyak | +--------------- -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011126210421.A9144>