From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 20 19:23:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA02604 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:23:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zone.syracuse.net (zone.syracuse.net [205.232.47.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA02582 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:23:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@zone.syracuse.net) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by zone.syracuse.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA04494; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:19:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:19:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman To: George Michaelson cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: staroffice/linux-compat on Current working? In-Reply-To: <1414.906339242@dstc.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG StarOffice 4.0 for Linux works. I believe SP1 works as well. But after that, they're known to be broken. Use StarOffice 4.0/no SP, if you want something that works. I guarantee it works as of yesterday. Cheers, Brian Feldman On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, George Michaelson wrote: > > Are there known problems with linux compat and current? > > I snarfed an OpenLinux CD with staroffice 4.0 and found > that it worked right up to about 30 seconds of elapsed > walltime when truss shows its spinlooped in SIGNAL 11 and > it has to be killed. > > Could be an applications error of course. I'm just assuming that > while current stabilizes as 3.0 there may be some compat problems > which can catch the unwary. > > If this is of concern, I can try to provide better debug/trace if > somebody cares. > > -George > -- > George Michaelson | DSTC Pty Ltd > Email: ggm@dstc.edu.au | University of Qld 4072 > Phone: +61 7 3365 4310 | Australia > Fax: +61 7 3365 4311 | http://www.dstc.edu.au > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message