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Date:      Mon, 09 Nov 1998 21:29:39 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de>
To:        jobaldwi@vt.edu
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: StarOffice 5? 
Message-ID:  <199811092029.VAA02656@peedub.muc.de>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Nov 1998 13:26:17 EST." <XFMail.981107132617.jobaldwi@vt.edu> 

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John Baldwin writes:
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>Hi all,
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>I was wondering if anyone had gotten StarOffice 5 to run under Linux emulation
>.
>On Star Division's website, it only claims that it needs libc5, but when I
>d/l'ed it, I found out that it wants to run under glibc2, and that it uses
>Linux kernel threads.  Since, to my knowledge, FreeBSD doesn't have kernel
>threads (yet) is that going to pose a big problem?  I'm just wondering if
>anyone already has an horror/success stories before I screw my system up. 
>Thanks.
>

Brian Feldman is working on getting the Linux clone() call working. I
believe that this is a pre-requisite to getting SO5 running under the
Linuxulator.

Until that wonderful day I suggest not wasting your time :)

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Gary Jennejohn
Home - garyj@muc.de
Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com



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