From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 8:26:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from joe.pythonvideo.com (joe.pythonvideo.com [209.226.29.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0475437B400 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 08:26:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (joe@localhost) by joe.pythonvideo.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB2GQG426326; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 11:26:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from joe@advancewebhosting.com) X-Authentication-Warning: joe.pythonvideo.com: joe owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 11:26:16 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro X-Sender: joe@joe.pythonvideo.com To: Jim Durham Cc: Lanny Baron , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Staroffice Networking Non-functional In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hopefully since Sun donated SO to the gnome project some things on it will change. I've never used kde but i wouldnt install it just for koffice, especially since it doesnt write M$ docs. I've heard some good things about KDE2, i wonder if thats any better? FreeBSD - The BEST upgrade you can do to NT! On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Jim Durham wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Joe Oliveiro wrote: > > > I find so52 to be like its own wm. I would like to see each program to run > > on its own :) > > > > I hear that.... basic unix philosophy... Oddly enough, the Windows > version does the same thing and I've found it scares casual > users by replacing their familiar desktop. 8-) However, it works > rather well for supplying common document compatability with the > Microsoft stuff on *nix. . Koffice looks very promising also. > They do it right, one app at a time! However, KDE on FreeBSD > is a little shakey at the moment and also, koffice can't write > M$Office file types. I think it just reads them. For their > first effort, it's really impressive, though. > > > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Lanny Baron wrote: > > > > > Hello Jim, > > > I have the same problem and have asked if there is a cure. Unfortunately, the > > > person who maintains the port, is away until January 2001. I really like so52 > > > but its frustrating as hell to have to run netscape over it if you happen to > > > need infonet. > > > > > > If you happen to find the fix, please let me know. I will do same if I can > > > find cure. > > I'll try to remember to do that. > > > > On Friday 01 December 2000 20:29, Jim Durham wrote: > > > > After installing Staroffice 5.2 on two different 4.1 > > > > machines, I noticed that networking is totally > > > > non-functional. IE; no browsing, ftp or e-mail. > > > > > > > > Searching the mail archives turned up a couple > > > > references to this problem but no solution. > > > > > > > > ???? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message