From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 20 13:00:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26539 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:00:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from geo.geocast.net (geo.geocast.net [128.177.240.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26511 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:00:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from castor@geocast.net) Received: from localhost (castor@localhost) by geo.geocast.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25531; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 12:59:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 12:59:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Castor Fu To: Stefan Herrmann cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Star Office 5 on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000001bde4c0$e46bb680$030aa8c0@obelix.webaffairs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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