Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:33:25 +0200 From: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> To: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [A bit OT]Re: New user questions :) Message-ID: <40D31955.4030506@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <200406181608.56902.bastill@adam.com.au> References: <200406171410.i5HEA1u20342@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <40D1AA58.1010006@wcborstel.nl> <200406181608.56902.bastill@adam.com.au>
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Brian Astill wrote: >On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:27 am, Jorn Argelo wrote: > > >>>That advice may be OK for some things, but it doesn't make sense >>>to make yourself compile such behemoths as Openoffice and etc >>>unless you are in to pain and suffering for your entertainment. >>> >>> >>> >>Heh, that's true. Though let's be honest, you have to try everything >>once, don't you think? I got no problems compiling KDE, but I don't >>really prefer using OOo. I'll use KOffice instead. >> >> > >May you have much good fortune! On my experience, you'll need it. >It might depend on the system, but I have found that KWord crashes every >time you use "Save As" and KSpread won't save AT ALL. > > That's interesting. KOffice worked just fine here. I never had any problems with it. The only minor thing that irritated me was the limited choice of fonts, but that's it. >Interestingly, Knoppix - which is a pretty comprehensive stand-alone >Debian Linux system - ships with Open Office, but without KOffice, even >though it uses KDE as its GUI. > > The main reason is, I think, because OOo can save files into Bill's extension, and KOffice can't. Perhaps the developers of Knoppix encountered several problems using KOffice as well. >OO just WORKS without any hassles I know of. > > It's not a bad program, no. But the thing I really hate about it is that you need a working java eviroment to let it work, even if you install it without java support. I haven't really tried the package thing though, I compiled it from source from the ports tree. Cheers, Jorn
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