From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 17:34:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CA6137B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 17:34:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 17115 invoked by uid 100); 3 Dec 2000 01:34:24 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14889.41760.187469.928635@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 19:34:24 -0600 (CST) To: Joe Oliveiro Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Staroffice Networking Non-functional In-Reply-To: <106275881@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Oliveiro types: > Hopefully since Sun donated SO to the gnome project some things on it will > change. I've never used kde but i wouldnt install it just for koffice, > especially since it doesnt write M$ docs. You can install koffice without installing kde (or kde2). The port (editors/koffice) will do the trick for you. You will install all the libs for it, but that's no worse than the libs for StarOffice. After doing so, I decided that it wasn't ready for real world work yet. > > > I find so52 to be like its own wm. I would like to see each program to run > > > on its own :) > > I hear that.... basic unix philosophy... Oddly enough, the Windows > > version does the same thing and I've found it scares casual > > users by replacing their familiar desktop. 8-) However, it works > > rather well for supplying common document compatability with the > > Microsoft stuff on *nix. StarOffice is clearly the best choice if reading some monopolies proprietary document formats is important to you. I don't think they have to do the "Win9x in a window" for that, though. I've been trying to get openoffice installed on Linux to check things out, but it isn't worth the trouble of installing the library variants openoffice wants. If you want a good office suite that works well on FreeBSD and doesn't clash with your windowing environment, you'll need to buy it. Applixware Office does a nice job, and is available as a FreeBSD native application from the FreeBSD mall . http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message