From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 6:58:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527CD37B401 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 06:58:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B5843EA9 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 06:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gASEwNsh083473; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:58:23 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.6/8.12.4/Submit) with ESMTP id gASEwMPV083470; Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:58:22 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:58:21 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Roman Neuhauser Cc: Nelis Lamprecht , Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Desktop OS with support for Windows In-Reply-To: <20021128143639.GT77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Message-ID: <20021128155342.Q78309-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # nelis@brabys.co.za / 2002-11-28 16:14:38 +0200: > > Hi People > > > > I want to use FreeBSD as my desktop OS with Gnome but I still need to do > > Windows luser support. I have installed Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable and > > now I'm trying to figure out what is the best solution. Does the Vmware > > port still work and or should I just install Samba and which Office > > Software would be best suited to use that is compatible with MS Word and > > Exel ? I know of Openoffice, Gnomeoffice and Staroffice but have had no > > experience using either. > > > > Your suggestions, help much appreciated. > > I use TightVNC instead of vmware. Works quite fine, and it's almost > free (GPL). > As for office software: all my attempts to use various incarnations > ended in disasters: > > Koffice (~1 year ago): no Kapplication lasted longer than ~30 > seconds > AbiWord (june/july): 70% of attempts to save a short and simple > .doc made Abi go in a tight loop or just die. I ended up using > wv (/usr/ports/textproc/wv), which *did* work as advertised. > OpenOffice (~1 month ago): crash! boom! bang! > > so, my advice would be: vmware or vnc. My experience with OpenOffice 1.0.1 is much better than yours, I did a lot of tasks successfully. I use vmware (version 2) continuously with 4.x-R (in the moment 4.7-R) and it works very well. As far as I know there is no support for hosting the current vmware version 3 on FreeBSD. Best regards K. Heuer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message