From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 12:48:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19691 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:48:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peedub.muc.de (newpc.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19675 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:48:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.1/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA02656; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:29:39 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199811092029.VAA02656@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: jobaldwi@vt.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice 5? Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Nov 1998 13:26:17 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 21:29:39 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin writes: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hi all, > >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 :) --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message