From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 15 18: 1:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E5D37B704; Mon, 15 May 2000 18:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11732; Mon, 15 May 2000 17:59:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200005160059.RAA11732@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 In-Reply-To: <200005160032.KAA09256@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au> from Gary Roberts at "May 16, 0 10:32:49 am" To: garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 17:59:51 -0700 (MST) Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Gary Roberts wrote: > To answer Chad's question from my perspective, to capture more of the > desktop rather than server market, FreeBSD needs a workable `office' > solution. I was hoping staroffice might be that. I have had my secretary > evaluating it with a view to weaning her off W98/Office97. Here is a > summary of results. For what it's worth, the PTB decided on Applixware a bit over a year ago. Some fairly high-powered FreeBSDer's did the port, and you can buy a native version from the FreeBSD Mall (among other places). I had some experience with Applixware under Linux, and the word on the street is that the native FreeBSD version is much more stable, faster and generally nicer. That's why I'm eager for Sun's promised release of StarOffice under Sun's "Community Source License", so we can have a native StarOffice. I'll wager it gets noticably faster then. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net 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