Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:24:32 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de> To: ML Duke <mlduke@concentric.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice & wordperfect Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-0824122432-06cZsav@duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de> In-Reply-To: <35E0468F.3DD9@concentric.net>
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On Sun 23 Aug, ML Duke wrote: > Marty Poulin wrote: > > > > Just to add to the discussion here - has anyone had any experience using > > Star Office on FreeBSD? > > In my personal experience its a German incarnation of word HeHeHe....;-) Well, 'the market' seems to like those overgrown, mainframe-like applications. The 'do everything in one place'-philosophy of StarOffice is of course somewhat contrary to the one Unix in general follows (have one program do only one thing at a time). Obviously, as you use FreeBSD, you're not really part of that 'market'. Applixware will have a native FreeBSD version sometime in the future, though and will follow the 'Unix Style Guides' more closely. > and a resource hog. It started working after I had 64 MB, so this might be true somehow. > It does have some power, but English help files I managed to find not > at all. Have you installed the '01'-version or the '49'-version. They have international versions, though I have never tried them, for obvious reasons.... > Finally just deleted it. I installed it only to 'see' it and know if and how it works. I don't see it as a 'killer-app', nor would I use/welcome the MS-Office-Suite, if there was a port to Linux/FreeBSD. BTW: SoftwareAG (http://www.sag.de) has ported DCOM to Linux ! It's called 'EntireX'...... (Bleeaaaachhh) cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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