Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 23:23:04 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Alvin Sim <bsd140870@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re[2]: StarOffice 5.2 & Netscape 6.x Stability Message-ID: <01091523230401.16877@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <1824982915.20010915184351@yahoo.co.uk> References: <20010914183021.I7403@crb-web.com> <01091422502700.16877@i8k.babbleon.org> <1824982915.20010915184351@yahoo.co.uk>
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On Saturday 15 September 2001 06:43, Alvin Sim wrote:
> Saturday, September 15, 2001, 10:50:27 AM, Brian T . Schellenberger wrote:
> > On Friday 14 September 2001 19:30, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> >> I am getting ready to switch my Linux server to a FreeBSD 4.3 system.
> >> My only concern is still being able to rely on StarOffice 5.2 and
> >> Netscape 6.1. Are these stable using the linux binary compat support?
> >> Does Mozilla build natively on FreeBSD?
> >
> > Based on my experience, the answers are "yes", "probably, since Mozilla
> > works
>
> i assume you have it downloaded and built from the ports rather than
> building/installing it from the 5.2 CD? i have never had _any_ success
> getting StarOffice 5.2 (from the CD) to install and run in FreeBSD 4.X-S
> but i suppose it would (although i havent tried it yet) work from the
> ports.
Yes. Built from the port. It works great.
I actually have the CD (it was a freebie at the SAS User's Group conference,
of all places), but I decided to install it from the port. Since I have a
cable modem, a 900Mz CPU, a 45G harddrive, and 512M of RAM, there is little
reason not to do everything from ports. In fact, I have built my entire
non-base system from ports except for two (I don't recall which now) that
were dependencies that wouldn't build from ports, and even there I downloaded
the packages rather than bother looking for the CD . . .
I did my initial install and one rescue from the CD set, but that's all I've
used it for.
> ~as
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