From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 24 13:29:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01815 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01807 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:29:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de) Received: from duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de (surf81.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.81]) by gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA13754; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:28:18 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 21:08:43 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: StarOffice & wordperfect To: William Woods cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon 24 Aug, William Woods wrote: > > I installed it only to 'see' it and know if and how it works. > > I don't see it as a 'killer-app', nor would I use/welcome the > > MS-Office-Suite, if there was a port to Linux/FreeBSD. > > Well, I would both use and welcome a MS Office like program, for a couple > reasons. Unlike a lot of people, I use FreeBSD not as a hobby system, but a > work system. I need Word Processing, spread sheets, database and would > greeatly welcome a program like Power Point. What's the state of Kpresenter ? I think there was another program someone else mentioned to me. > Personally, if they were integrated and worked together, great. IMHO, lack of > everyday apps like these are holding FreeBSD back. StarOffice and Word > Perfect, (I use both) are a welcome addition to the Unix world and > fill a very big hole in needed apps. OK, your right, I was a bit harsh. It's just that I don't have a personal need for the office-suites, as I don't use FreeBSD as a desktop-platform (nor do I use Windows). I find the thought of x*100 MB software-installs (for writing letters or showing 'slides') downright repulsive. It's enough to have one contanimated platform (M$-Windows) where features, marketing and apparently "toy'ish-ness" count more than the actual value or real-world usability of software. I don't want FreeBSD become into _that_. Netscape is enough.... cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message