From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 11:40:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E84837BBD8 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:39:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 53497 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2000 18:38:52 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 27 Jun 2000 18:38:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 13447 invoked by uid 211); 27 Jun 2000 18:38:49 -0000 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 00:08:48 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: j mckitrick Cc: Matthew Hunt , Christoph Sold , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux emulation and office suites Message-ID: <20000628000848.H12860@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000627025036.A63418@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000627113714.D5878@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000627131638.A70989@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3958B8C1.7C37DA6E@i-clue.de> <20000627111135.A87093@wopr.caltech.edu> <20000627192043.A76159@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000627192043.A76159@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:20:43PM +0100 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG j mckitrick said on Jun 27, 2000 at 19:20:43: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:11:35AM -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:22:57PM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote: > > > > > IMHO it would be _very_ nice to have StarOffice rtunning under *BSD, > > > either in Linux emulation, or -even better- native. > > > > You mean like /usr/ports/editors/staroffice5 ? > > > > I don't know how this vicious rumor of it not being ports got > > started. I've never used it (although my officemate found it > > useful under Solaris), but I easily found it with: > > i think there are two possibilities here. first, the bsd port is often a > minor revision or so behind the most recent release. so staroffice 5.2 > MIGHT not yet have a port, while 5.1 clearly does. i don't know simply > because i haven't checked the ports. it would obviously be easy enough to > do. i just haven't yet because i'm not sure what i want to do. My ports tree (updated nightly) puts the version at 5.1a. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message