From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 17 4:58:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A621537B774; Wed, 17 May 2000 04:58:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.6.101.160] (helo=parish.my.domain) by protactinium with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12rnEG-0004pP-00; Tue, 16 May 2000 20:42:09 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01259; Tue, 16 May 2000 19:51:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:51:40 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Gary Roberts Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, emulation@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 Message-ID: <20000516195140.I233@parish> References: <200005152346.QAA11498@freeway.dcfinc.com> <200005160032.KAA09256@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005160032.KAA09256@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au>; from garyr@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:32:49AM +1000 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:32:49AM +1000, Gary Roberts wrote: > Chad R. Larson writes :- > > > As I recall, David Gilbert wrote: > > > I must say that I'm dissapointed that I can't run it. > > > > This is older hat, but I've had WordPerfect 8 running on a > > 2.2.8-STABLE system under Linux emulation since Dec, 1998. > > > > Has anyone tried to evaluate pros and cons of the various office > > suites? > > > > 1) Applixware - native > > 2) StarOffice - linux > > 3) WordPerfect - linux > > 4) anything - Wine > > 5) ??? > > I notice that people on this thread have been cc'ing to `emulators' and > `stable'. There doesn't seem to be an emulators list - it is `emulation' > or `freebsd-emulation' according to Majordomo. This thread probably > belongs on emulation so the folks there have been missing it so far. > > To answer Chad's question from my perspective, to capture more of the > desktop rather than server market, FreeBSD needs a workable `office' > solution. I was hoping staroffice might be that. I have had my secretary > evaluating it with a view to weaning her off W98/Office97. Here is a > summary of results. > > So as not to create too much of an initial shock, we installed the W98 > version of staroffice about 4-6 months ago and tried to use it as much > as possible. She reported that the suite was pretty much capable of all > the things she needed and was fairly easy to get used to, BUT:- > > 1. It was slow, noticeably slower than she was used to. > 2. It caused W98 to crash more frequently when she was trying to `push'. > 3. She wasn't able to produce documents that our clients could open > correctly under Office97. Since we send a lot of documents as email > attachments, this became the killer and so we haven't moved to > `phase 2' which was to install it under a decent OS which should have > cured the crashes. > > At the moment I've basically given up - she uses W98 and I use FreeBSD. > I would be very interested in other peoples experiences. Perhaps > `emulation' might be the better forum to do this. > I try to use it at work (under NT) but it can't handle "forms" in Word docs properly, which is a problem. OTOH, it does a better job of exporting Expel spreadsheets to HTML than Expel 97 does :) > Cheers, > -- > Gary Roberts (garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message