From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 20:48:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4839C16A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:48:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pandora.afflictions.org (asylum.afflictions.org [64.7.134.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2CA43D54 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:48:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgerow@afflictions.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pandora.afflictions.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A031578CA1 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:49:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from pandora.afflictions.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pandora.afflictions.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 83577-06 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:49:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from dementia.afflictions.org (dementia.afflictions.org [172.19.206.56]) by pandora.afflictions.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7D978C64 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:48:59 -0500 (EST) Received: by dementia.afflictions.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3543828689; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:48:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:48:54 -0500 From: Damian Gerow To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050227204854.GG35988@afflictions.org> References: <20050227182359.GE35988@afflictions.org> <20050227184639.GA1163@lobo.homeunix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050227184639.GA1163@lobo.homeunix.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3D7 D901 A53A 1A99 BFD6 E6DF 9F3B 742B C288 9CC9 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at pandora.afflictions.org Subject: Re: Word Processor on AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:48:33 -0000 Thus spake Ernst W. Winter (ewinter@ewinter.org) [27/02/05 13:49]: : > Are there any good[1] word processors that are currently available : > for use on AMD64 systems? : : Abiword no problems here as I use it also to convert to other formats : and it works wel, had no crash so far, I even loaded by accident a : *ps file and it it shoed it correctly. Hmmm.... Maybe I'll dig a little deeper. I know the problem's actually in glib, but I haven't bothered digging any further. : > [1] By 'good' I mean stable (not a development branch), and able to : > read/write MS Word format. It would be nice if it could do OO.org : > as well, as that's what all of my current docs are in. : : What version of amd64 are you running? I use so far "5-STABLE", that : is up to date until today. I'm running -STABLE, from a few weeks back: : pretty fun. There's a few bugs here and there (-STABLE), but nothing I'll give an update a shot. - Damian