From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 7 14:16:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA18216 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 May 1997 14:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol.ashland.edu (sol.ashland.edu [198.30.217.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA18203 for ; Wed, 7 May 1997 14:16:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from warp4.ashland.edu for jroberts@ashland.edu by sol.ashland.edu (8.6.12/931002.1044) id RAA08626; Wed, 7 May 1997 17:16:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 17:22:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeff Roberts To: "Paul T. Root" cc: FreeBSD Questions Discussion List Subject: Re: BSD/Linux In-Reply-To: <199705071915.OAA23198@horton.iaces.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: jroberts@mail.ashland.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 May 1997, Paul T. Root wrote: > I'm having a little trouble with Star Office. It takes a long time > to come up, and I don't know if that's just the way it is, or if > I have something wrong. It seems to run fine once it's up. Though, > help functions haven't seem to come up yet. > > BTW, Star Office is a productivity suite. And it's free for non- > commercial use. Pretty nice, too. > SO is actually *meant* to take a year to load. Their idea was that the user would run all or most of the apps that come with it (the presentation program, the drawing program) at once, so it would be best to use shared libraries -- and the other apps would open right up when called. I don't think I've ever used it in that way, and on the 486 I used to have, the wait was considerable! I've used a couple versions for Warp, but not FBSD. There are other good WPs for Warp, so I've pretty much given up SO (just too buggy), though it's fun to learn technical phrases in German (not everything got translated to English). Take care, Jeff ______________________________________________________________________ jroberts@ashland.edu >>>> Jeff Roberts <<<< strider@acm.org ______________________________________________________________________