Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:15:02 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> Cc: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>, dave <dmehler22@earthlink.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on staroffice? Message-ID: <20000328181502.A264@parish> In-Reply-To: <00032910494904.00326@freebsd.freebsd.org>; from dannyh@idx.com.au on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:47:42AM %2B1000 References: <38DE079B.21FEB9FF@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> <00032910494904.00326@freebsd.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:47:42AM +1000, Danny wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Personally I find StarOffice from Sun very limited in features. From memory
> StarOffice doesn't even support "tables"
5.1 does, I just checked.
> so you can't like do proper
> documentation with it.
>
> If you want a good office package for your FreeBSD box get FreeBSD Applixware
> which is not so limited in features. But you have to pay for it.
>
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Jim Durham wrote:
> > dave wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > Is anyone using staroffice 5.1? I was wondering if it is worth the
> > > download time, and if it requires any additional configuration? Does it run
> > > in x or console mode?
> > > Thanks.
> > > Dave.
> >
> > I'm using it with 3.4 . It has it's good and bad points.
> > On the plus side, the word processor, spreadsheet and
> > database seem to work well and interface nicely with the
> > M$ world. The built-in browser is much more stable on
> > my system than the later Netscapes.
> >
> > On the other hand, it tries to replace your GUI desktop
> > with its own desktop, which I don't like. It is also
> > a huge binary (soffice.bin) that loads a separate instance
> > for every function (mail, spreadsheet, etc) and takes up a
> > huge amount of memory, violating the unix tradition of
> > small programs that do one job, this is a big, huge program
> > that does many jobs. Also, StarMail works well, but it
> > saves mail in some proprietary format, which makes it
> > hard to deal with things like telnetting in to your
> > system from the 'net and runing a text-based mailer on
> > your mail folders.
> >
> > All that said, it's far more functional for real work
> > than anything else I've tried, at least where you have
> > to deal with M$ files at work on a regular basis or as
> > attachments in e-mail.
> >
> > As to configuration, you answer a bunch of questions
> > when you complete the initial installation and then
> > it installs itself in /usr/local/Office51. Then, each
> > user must run the setup stuff, which creates an Office51
> > directory in his/her home directory where are placed the
> > desktop and folders and all that jazz. I would much rather
> > that it used the home directory itself as its "desktop"
> > folder, so that you didn't have to continually paw your
> > way up a couple layers of directory tree to get to the
> > stuff in your home directory. One of the nice things
> > about unix for day to day work is that the environment
> > moves with you as far as knowing where you are on the
> > system. Staroffice has its own ideas in this regard.
> >
> > --
> > Jim Durham
> >
> >
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