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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What would it take to replace MS Office? Date: 20 Oct 1996 14:43:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <54ddqr$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53nca4$shi@agate.berkeley.edu> <540ngp$7li@newshost.lanl.gov> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E hlu@synapse.lanl.gov (Henry Lu) wrote: > 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. They don't, and after reading the report in a (German) magazine on how the Linux port has been done, how much energy it costed the developers to convince their bosses about it: i doubt it will ever happen. (Even though it will perhaps be 1/10th of the work they had to do for Linux, since many of the problems are now already solved or worked around.) So your only chance is the Linuxulator. Alas, you also need a shared libXm in Linux format, as i've been told. A friend of mine had it running on his FreeBSD-current system, and it turned out to cause him less troubles than his colleagues had on a native Linux system. :-)) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)