Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:56:20 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP installing STAROFFICE Message-ID: <3B0FEE44.4441D8F5@iowna.com> References: <3B0FB1BE.15BB7ABF@iafrica.com> <Pine.A41.4.10.10105261256570.38376-100000@acs5.bu.edu> <20010526103536.2ecd40df.chip@wiegand.org>
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Chip Wiegand wrote: > > It appears Gallagher <mgllghr@bu.edu>, on Sat, 26 May 2001 13:00:10 -0400 > (EDT) wrote something like: > > > Star Office is part of the FreeBSD ports system. It's best to install it > > through there (usually /usr/ports). I believe it's under editors. I'm > > sure someone else has more experience with this. I personally have not > > tried it yet. > > > > ~mike > > I tried it from the ports system. It installed without any problems, ran > extremely slow on my amd k6-2/350 w/64megs ram. I removed within a few days > it was so unbearably slow. Word Perfect is faster on this machine, to the > point to make it usable. I s'pose I should buy a faster machine some day. Up until a month or so ago I was using it on a 150mhz Ppro w/ 40 meg RAM. It was just barely usable (if I was feeling very patient) Now I have a 1G Athlon with 128 M RAM and it runs very nicely. I believe it's a RAM hog more than anything else, I noticed a LOT of swapping. Perhaps I'll get bored some day and put more RAM in that machine to see if it runs acceptably on a slower processor. Anyway ... I installed using the ports and had no problems with the installation. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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