From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 24 13:29:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01829 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:29:07 -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 NAA01808 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:29:02 -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 WAA13758; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 22:28:21 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 21:16:14 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: StarOffice & wordperfect To: Chris Coleman 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, Chris Coleman 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. > > 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. > > I agree here completely. How else are we going to take machines back from > Microsoft if we can't compete in the desktop arena? If Freebsd ran MS > office, I wouldn't have to keep installing Win95/98 on all the desktop > computers around here. I just mentioned MS-Office, because I read somewhere that for some short time, there was a host 'linus' accessible inside microsoft.com ('linus.microsoft.com') which is said to have showed a standard RedHat post-install web-site. But this may have to do with the availability of DCOM for Linux ('EntireX') and other 'real' Unices. I didn't want to keep Microsoft from porting anything to FreeBSD ;-) (I'm sure they listen...) it's just that *I* don't have a big urge to install yet another 200 MB of mostly worthless junk on my HD, which I'm sure Office97 would take as a minimum Unix-install. I use other software on another platform for that. 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