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Date:      Wed, 05 Dec 2001 08:19:25 -0700
From:      Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@dcfinc.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OpenOffice for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <3C0E3AFD.6080208@hagenhomes.com>
References:  <4.2.2.20011124073531.00a63b30@mailhost.dcfinc.com> <3C02BB76.8030209@umc.com.ua> <20011126222200.A9228@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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Just a point of interest on this.  Build 641b of Open Office runs in 
Linux compatibly mode on -stable as of a few weeks ago.

Darren Wiebe
dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com

Chad R. Larson wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:00:22AM +0200, Tim Tretyak wrote:
>
>>Chad R. Larson wrote:
>>
>>>What is the status of the native port of OpenOffice to
>>>FreeBSD?  I know several people who are running StarOffice 5.2
>>>for Linux under the FreeBSD Linux emulator, but the native
>>>port seems to be stalled.
>>>
>>>I've written several times to offer hardware and/or software
>>>support, but have received no response.
>>>
>>>Are you still active in the project?
>>>
>>Sorry for my possible silence - OpenOffice FBSD port now under active
>>development, but only by two developers - me and Carlos Pantiago (you 
>>can see his email in dev@ and porting@ mail list.
>>All of as works for OO as hobby, and, in general, we don't have much 
>>time to spend for this. :(
>>
>
>I'd guess that the FreeBSD community could muster several more
>people (me included) to help with the port.
>
>I can't imagine that given the Solaris and Linux head start that
>there is a lot of work to do.
>
>I'm willing to put up a mirror site if the "official" site is too
>busy.
>
>I've put out a feeler to the FreeBSD-stable mailing list.  I'll bet
>you get more help than you can organize.
>
>	-crl
>--
>Chad R. Larson (CRL15)   602-953-1392   Brother, can you paradigm?
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