Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 01:15:04 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: WP's for FreeBSD (Was: Microsoft giving back to FreeBSD !!) Message-ID: <15165.28264.754600.976397@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <3B3D8FC5.C5366C3B@pitt.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106271129170.46208-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <3B3A2E2F.A74DDCC8@pitt.edu> <3B3A2ECF.6FECA0E3@Silver-Lynx.com> <20010630061123.E20203@hades.hell.gr> <3B3D8FC5.C5366C3B@pitt.edu>
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Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> types: > Even when I am aware that our linux emulator is excellent, I made up my > personal excuse and I never buy commercial software for linux: A native > port is always better because, as someone that has ported Linux stuff to > FreeBSD, in the porting process new bugs are found. Having Linux users > run with the first round of bug reports is OK with me too ;). I'm not quite that strict about things - FreeBSD native is a feature I look for, but don't require. If there is a large margin between Linux commercial software and the FreeBSD native competition, I'd buy the Linux binary. If there are no non-required features missing and the two are otherwise close, I'll buy the FreeBSD version. Which is why I would have been willing to buy Frame for Linux if Adobe would sell it to me, but wound up buying Applixware Office for FreeBSD when Adobe decided not they wouldn't do that. > > Then support was dropped. And it seemed to bring back all those dim > I admit it blatantly... I didn't buy Applixware for FreeBSD because I > heard it was not very good, and I'm hoping a native open office will > appear someday. Wordperfect is a classic though... I would buy a FreeBSD > native port, even considering the Linux one is available online. Applixware 4.4.2 was ... I think annoying is the word. 5.0 is much better. If you do lots of slides for overheads - well, that's the weakest tool in the suite. On the other hand, if you think that, you should check out <URL: http://www.edwardtufte.com/1183729641/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00001B&topic_id=1&topic=Ask%20E%2eT%2e > and then both <URL: http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm > and <URL: http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html >. I've been using Applixware 5.0 for work for graduate school for the last two semesters, and have been pleased with the results. You can read my review of it at <URL: http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/reviews/AO/ >, and of the word processors I looked at for doing graduate work at <URL: <URL: http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/reviews/FreeBSD-WP.html >. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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-chat" in the body of the message
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