From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 15 19:17:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [198.96.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB2837B988; Mon, 15 May 2000 19:17:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@office.tor.velocet.net) Received: from office.tor.velocet.net (trooper.velocet.net [204.138.57.194]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC8B137FBD; Mon, 15 May 2000 22:17:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by office.tor.velocet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA27861; Mon, 15 May 2000 22:17:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dgilbert) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14624.44959.656398.461558@trooper.velocet.net> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 22:17:03 -0400 (EDT) To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: dgilbert@velocet.ca (David Gilbert), andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU, freebsd-emulators@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 In-Reply-To: <200005152346.QAA11498@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <14624.35092.234693.852141@trooper.velocet.net> <200005152346.QAA11498@freeway.dcfinc.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Chad" == Chad R Larson writes: Chad> As I recall, David Gilbert wrote: >> I must say that I'm dissapointed that I can't run it. Chad> This is older hat, but I've had WordPerfect 8 running on a Chad> 2.2.8-STABLE system under Linux emulation since Dec, 1998. Chad> Has anyone tried to evaluate pros and cons of the various office Chad> suites? Chad> 1) Applixware - native Applixware is a good but somewhat immature product. I have run it both under linux emulation and under native code. While it's a good basic package, it tends to fall down if your needs are complex. The programability is cool. I could see getting into it if the spreadsheet was a little more featureful (or maybe we just havn't found the features yet). I must say that Applixware is the best behaved X application of its type, if that's anything to go on. Chad> 2) StarOffice - linux I must admit that I should take another look at this. My earlier impression was that it was kludgy. I don't know if it has improved. Chad> 3) WordPerfect - linux I still use WordPerfect 8. There is no "office" to it, but WordPerfect 8 for linux runs well and is a featureful product. Now... I havn't even been able to get Corel Office 2000 running on Debian yet, so I'm not impressed. Chad> 4) anything - Wine It's impressive that Excel almost runs. I havn't really tried Word since WordPerfect fills my current needs. Chad> 5) ??? Someone mentioned koffice? What's the spreadsheed engine? Last I tried gnumeric, I was nonplussed. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message