From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 10: 8:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C32C037B417 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:08:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 66876 invoked by uid 100); 12 Jan 2002 18:08:11 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15424.31626.665152.62069@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:08:10 -0600 To: Laurence Sanford Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD native Office software? In-Reply-To: <28724220@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" 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\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.43 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Laurence Sanford types: > The last couple cvsup's I've done have broken just about everything that > used linux emulation. Attempting to start staroffice causes the computer to > simply reboot without any real explaination of what happened. As a result > of things breaking, I'm now using Sylpheed for mail, Mozilla for a web > browser (its working fairly well I might add), but I'm lacking something I > can use for office software. Does something exist that will open word docs > and function fairly well as a native FreeBSD program, or do I have to wait > for the guru's that know whats up with Linux emulation to fix whatever's > broken (God knows I haven't got a clue whats wrong). If you're willing to spend real money, Applixware Office is available native for FreeBSD. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message