From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 18:23:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA7A337B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:23:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11445 invoked by uid 100); 8 Nov 2000 02:23:15 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14856.47378.897076.726315@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:23:14 -0600 (CST) To: "Cambria, Mike" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: StarOffice Open Source In-Reply-To: <79058229@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cambria, Mike types: > Now that StarOffice sources are available, are there any plans to make a > native FreeBSD version? Yup, only it's going to be "openoffice". It's in the ports tree now, marked as "broken: work in progress -- does not work yet." > Will this happen auto-magically with GNOME on FreeBSD since GNOME is using > StarOffice as their office tools? I suspect not, as it never happend with AbiSuite, which used to be GNOME office suite. And StarOffice is a *lot* bigger than AbiSuite. OpenOffice is going to be worth a look. StarOffice is a nice product, if only it didn't insist on running VNC to a Windows box running the binaries ... oops, sorry, it just *looks* like that. If they've broken the applications out into X windows, it could be a winner. If anyone knows for sure, I'd be interested in hearing about it. Finally, if you want a FreeBSD native office suite now, consider buying a copy of Applixware Office. 5.0 is a nice package.