From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 23 3:26:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from node11a94.a2000.nl (node11a94.a2000.nl [24.132.26.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51CFD14BEC for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 03:26:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl) Received: (qmail 94000 invoked from network); 23 Nov 1999 11:26:34 -0000 Received: from dlanor.evertsen.nl (10.0.0.3) by node11a94.a2000.nl with SMTP; 23 Nov 1999 11:26:34 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:26:33 +0100 (CET) From: Ronald 'Ko' Klop To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desktop BSD (was Re: StarOffice 5 on a SMP system..... or Applixware) In-Reply-To: <199911230115.LAA04325@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Gary Roberts wrote: > Aaron Sonntag writes :- > > > I have just got to say it... the implementation of star office as a standard > > freebsd port is very very important... > > In the last two weeks alone three companies have asked me about running bsd > > as a desktop system... and this decision was going to be based up on whether > > start office could be easily implemented... > > The workstation market can not be ignored... > > Anything that helps a `convert' to best replace the lost app functionality > when switching from MS has got to be a `good thing' (TM). > Maybe the site http://www.bsdapps.org/ can help here. -- Ronald Klop http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message