From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 5 7:19:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.hagenhomes.net (s161-184-185-108.ab.hsia.telus.net [161.184.185.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEF137B405 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 07:19:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freebsd.hagenhomes.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id fB5FFsB32748; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:15:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com) Received: from hagenhomes.com (dkwiebe [10.0.1.3]) by freebsd.hagenhomes.net (8.11.6/8.11.4av) with ESMTP id fB5FFcX32741; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:15:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com) Message-ID: <3C0E3AFD.6080208@hagenhomes.com> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:19:25 -0700 From: Darren Wiebe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice for FreeBSD References: <4.2.2.20011124073531.00a63b30@mailhost.dcfinc.com> <3C02BB76.8030209@umc.com.ua> <20011126222200.A9228@freeway.dcfinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just a point of interest on this. Build 641b of Open Office runs in Linux compatibly mode on -stable as of a few weeks ago. Darren Wiebe dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com Chad R. Larson wrote: >On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:00:22AM +0200, Tim Tretyak wrote: > >>Chad R. Larson wrote: >> >>>What is the status of the native port of OpenOffice to >>>FreeBSD? I know several people who are running StarOffice 5.2 >>>for Linux under the FreeBSD Linux emulator, but the native >>>port seems to be stalled. >>> >>>I've written several times to offer hardware and/or software >>>support, but have received no response. >>> >>>Are you still active in the project? >>> >>Sorry for my possible silence - OpenOffice FBSD port now under active >>development, but only by two developers - me and Carlos Pantiago (you >>can see his email in dev@ and porting@ mail list. >>All of as works for OO as hobby, and, in general, we don't have much >>time to spend for this. :( >> > >I'd guess that the FreeBSD community could muster several more >people (me included) to help with the port. > >I can't imagine that given the Solaris and Linux head start that >there is a lot of work to do. > >I'm willing to put up a mirror site if the "official" site is too >busy. > >I've put out a feeler to the FreeBSD-stable mailing list. I'll bet >you get more help than you can organize. > > -crl >-- >Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? >chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com >DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message