From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 11:52:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA04452 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:52:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA04444 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA17964 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:52:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:52:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: ApplixWare vs. StarOffice Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We're drifting a bit here but what the heck ;-) Anyone out there tried ApplixWare and StarOffice and have any opinions? I'm in desperate need of a word processor and don't want to clog my laptop with MicroSlop Word while I'm trying to sell it. My previous experience with the StarOffice betas was not enjoyable. The installation was confusing and some features were broken for the English case, such as the SmartQuotes. (There are no separate `` and '' characters in the X font set, but it does have the German << and >>.) I also had trouble with it crashing intermittiently and with graphics artifacts and a generally unstable interface. ApplixWare is cheap for students ($80!) and apparently has a nice word processor and spreadsheet modules. Presentation graphics is nice but not necessary. The word processor is the priority. Thanks for any insight or recommendations to forward to -chat. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major