From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 20 17:38:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 677D914CB3 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id RAA07150; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:38:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:38:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Kip Macy X-Sender: kip@luna To: "Chad R. Larson" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun's StarOffice 5.1, again In-Reply-To: <199909210022.RAA23112@freeway.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: chad@DCFinc.com,stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG With their ever-stricter licensing agreements and their ever-less competitive position in the market, it is likely to be some time before the source is released under a usable license. -Kip On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Chad R. Larson wrote: > As I recall, Mike Smith wrote: > > > As I recall, Haobo Yu wrote: > > > > http://www.serv.net/~mcglk/staroffice-install.html. It worked for me. > > > > > > Do we know if this cookbook works against 2.2-STABLE? > > > > We know it definitely will not. You _may_ have some luck running > > WordPerfect on 2.2, since it is a much kinder app, but not StarOffice. > > > I've got WordPerfect 8 running now. > > I bought two copies (one for the office, one for home) of the StarOffice > CD-ROM from the Sun Web site ($9.95 each) and loaded the Windows version > on a Win98 machine at home. I loaded the Solaris SPARC version on an > E450 at work. I'm just shooting for universal deployment. I suppose > the POSIX kernel stuff would kill me on my 2.2 machines. > > Anybody sign up for doing the Native FreeBSD port whenever Sun gets > around to releasing the sources? > > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? > chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message