Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:20:43 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-UK.eu.org> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> Cc: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux emulation and office suites Message-ID: <20000627192043.A76159@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20000627111135.A87093@wopr.caltech.edu>; from mph@astro.caltech.edu on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:11:35AM -0700 References: <20000627025036.A63418@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000627113714.D5878@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000627131638.A70989@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3958B8C1.7C37DA6E@i-clue.de> <20000627111135.A87093@wopr.caltech.edu>
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:11:35AM -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 04:22:57PM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote: > > > IMHO it would be _very_ nice to have StarOffice rtunning under *BSD, > > either in Linux emulation, or -even better- native. > > You mean like /usr/ports/editors/staroffice5 ? > > I don't know how this vicious rumor of it not being ports got > started. I've never used it (although my officemate found it > useful under Solaris), but I easily found it with: i think there are two possibilities here. first, the bsd port is often a minor revision or so behind the most recent release. so staroffice 5.2 MIGHT not yet have a port, while 5.1 clearly does. i don't know simply because i haven't checked the ports. it would obviously be easy enough to do. i just haven't yet because i'm not sure what i want to do. the other possibility is that people are referring to the native binary as a port, which it technically is, though not in official bsd terminology. i use this term loosely, so if anyone is waiting in the wings to correct me, i didn't research it so consider this a disclaimer. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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