Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:58:21 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> Cc: Nelis Lamprecht <nelis@brabys.co.za>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Desktop OS with support for Windows Message-ID: <20021128155342.Q78309-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> In-Reply-To: <20021128143639.GT77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # nelis@brabys.co.za / 2002-11-28 16:14:38 +0200: > > Hi People > > > > I want to use FreeBSD as my desktop OS with Gnome but I still need to do > > Windows luser support. I have installed Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable and > > now I'm trying to figure out what is the best solution. Does the Vmware > > port still work and or should I just install Samba and which Office > > Software would be best suited to use that is compatible with MS Word and > > Exel ? I know of Openoffice, Gnomeoffice and Staroffice but have had no > > experience using either. > > > > Your suggestions, help much appreciated. > > I use TightVNC instead of vmware. Works quite fine, and it's almost > free (GPL). > As for office software: all my attempts to use various incarnations > ended in disasters: > > Koffice (~1 year ago): no Kapplication lasted longer than ~30 > seconds > AbiWord (june/july): 70% of attempts to save a short and simple > .doc made Abi go in a tight loop or just die. I ended up using > wv (/usr/ports/textproc/wv), which *did* work as advertised. > OpenOffice (~1 month ago): crash! boom! bang! > > so, my advice would be: vmware or vnc. My experience with OpenOffice 1.0.1 is much better than yours, I did a lot of tasks successfully. I use vmware (version 2) continuously with 4.x-R (in the moment 4.7-R) and it works very well. As far as I know there is no support for hosting the current vmware version 3 on FreeBSD. Best regards K. Heuer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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