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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!ncar!newshost.lanl.gov!synapse!hlu From: hlu@synapse.lanl.gov (Henry Lu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What would it take to replace MS Office? Date: 15 Oct 1996 19:09:13 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 30 Message-ID: <540ngp$7li@newshost.lanl.gov> References: <53nca4$shi@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: synapse.lanl.gov X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] bob prohaska (bob@nemesis.its.berkeley.edu) wrote: : Hi all, : This is an admittedly inane question, motivated by acute boredom. : Having used Macintoshes, WinDoze, A/UX, WinNT, OS/2 and 386/FreeBSD, : I'm left wondering what it would take to provide the functionality : of Win95 plus MS Office on FreeBSD for the usual run of things people use : personal computers for. That would seem to be mostly document preparation. : As a marketing gimmick, FreeBSD might be well served by an installer : option titled "Office Droid" which downloaded and configured (very : important!) software to provide roughly the functionality of MicroSoft : Office. It needn't be "What you see is what you get", but it would : have to do the same job, meaning good-looking output on PostScript : or PCL printers. The ability to easily insert graphics in documents : (something easier than \special in TeX) would be highly desirable. : I've never felt the need to do this, owning a Mac 8-), but I'm : becoming curious as to whether FreeBSD and its collection of : ported software offers the required tools given the gradual : decline of Apple's fortunes and my growing dislike of MicroSoft. : Opinions? : bob I know there is free beta version of Staroffice , which works with MS word format (a German company). They offer linux version for free. I am not sure whether they offer freebsd version.