Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 12:59:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net> To: Stefan Herrmann <stefhe@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Star Office 5 on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.03.9809201254020.25524-100000@geo.geocast.net> In-Reply-To: <000001bde4c0$e46bb680$030aa8c0@obelix.webaffairs.net>
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> > www.cdrom.com is advertising a soon to be released port of using > > Applixware to FreeBSD. Does anyone have experience with Applixware on > > other platforms, or know anything about the port? > > > > I'm a bit wary of buying it too early in case of bugs, and it sounds > > pretty resource intensive, but the discussion on the redhat applix list > > seems like many people prefer it to Star Office. > > > > Any info / experiences? > > I bought ApplixOffice 2 years ago and used it under Linux. > It was the time, when StarOffice 3.1 was in beta test. ApplixOffice > used _a lot_ less memory and was way faster then the fat StarOffice 3.1b. > I didn't try the newer Versions of both. > > The disadvantage for me with ApplixOffice was, that it couldn't handle > MS Word documents. Don't know, if it can now. StarOffice 3.1b could, but > was too big and slow. These are my experiences. I use the RedHat version of Applixware version 4.37 under FreeBSD 2.2.[5-7]'s on a P133 w/64 meg of ram under linux emulation and it's worked ok. I haven't used it for anything beyond simple spreadsheets and reading word files. It's not a horrible spreadsheet, but Excel is probably nicer for most things, (except I'd need to reboot, so I avoid it ;-) Its MSOffice interoperability is OK with Word 6 and the version of Excel before Office95, but it has no ability to deal with newer versions, and Word 6 is now two (soon to be 3) versions behind the times, so it's getting to be less useful. Applix's web site didn't offer much in the way of advice about upgrades. I think they're figuring the Linux market will just have to buy new versions to upgrade. -castor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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