Re: [newbie] Applix Word / StarOffice review
On Friday 03 November 2000 07:41 pm, Adrian Smith wrote: hey Mark i have StarOffice 5.2 in RPM form. got it with mandrake 7.1.. are you talking about a different version of SO? There's also OpenOffice on cooker mirrors: /packages/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm (47mb) This is the development of Staroffice using Sun's recently released source code. http://openoffice.org/ /home/tom $ rpm -qpil openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm Name: openoffice Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 6.0.5 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Tue 24 Oct 2000 05:08:47 AM CDT Install date: (not installed) Build Host: bi.mandrakesoft.com Group : OfficeSource RPM: openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.src.rpm Size: 55178300 License: LGPL Packager: Frederic Crozat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Summary : Open Office Description : OpenOffice.org is a unified suite of productivity applications for all common office applications, including such functions as word processing, spreadsheets, drawings, presentations, data charting and formula editing. WARNING : This is not a stable release and does not include all features (such as printing ...) To install OpenOffice, as a user, you must run : cd /usr/lib/openoffice-6.0.5 ./setup --- I d/l'd and installed it out of curiosity. It does still work with M$ Office files, but it is missing a lot of other functionality. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay or something else? yea, i'm always confuzed Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7:08:03 PM 11/4/00 Larry, It would be wonderful to get SO in RPM form. My Celeron workstation at work just cannot deal with Sun's compression format to get the darn app installed for love or money.
Re: [newbie] Applix Word / StarOffice review
There's also OpenOffice on cooker mirrors: /packages/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm (47mb) Have you tested these Tom? I thought they were saying that they were pretty flakey right now in terms of the compile scripts. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Applix Word / StarOffice review
On Saturday 04 November 2000 09:08 am, Larry Marshall wrote: There's also OpenOffice on cooker mirrors: /packages/mandrake-devel/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/ openoffice-6.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm (47mb) Have you tested these Tom? I thought they were saying that they were pretty flakey right now in terms of the compile scripts. Cheers --- Larry I took a brief look at it. Only problem I had was I had to su to root to run the 'soffice' executable. All the rpm does is install the setup files, installation is just like with StarOffice. No problems there. It also didn't install a KDE menu entry. I believe that may have been my fault tho. I suspect I may have absentmindedly installed as root instead of user. While I'd classify it as usable, I doubt someone who needs a word proccessor to get any serious work done would agree ;) I'd also describe it's appearance as similar to that of Mozilla as compared to NutScrape. A lot of eye candy is missing. GUI is sort'a kind' 'flat'. With Mdk's rpm there no compiling to do. The 'compile scripts' problems is something I had also heard. That it was a real pain to get the Sun released source to compile/install. Either that's not the case or Mandrake developers (once again) did a great job fixin' it. Other than the user induced problem (me ;), it installed smoothly, ran stabily. The missing functionality in Openoffice is unavoidable. It's not that some things like printing don't work, they're not even there. Sun didn't have authority to release some parts of SO's source. I forget the reasons why tho. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Applix Word / StarOffice review
but very good. the author uses both products, and finds both fault greatness in each. i think it's a very objective look at each product. i would hope that in the last year Applix has fixed some of the problems he finds with their product. but what is bad is that the few faults he found with StarOffice a year ago are the things i still don't like about it. come on guys change is good. Adrian, right now the work on Star Office is to get all the source code into compilable rpms. This is a basic difference between Star Office and Applix that can't be denied or understated. While I'm not against commercial software, I suspect we'll see some really significant development going on with SO code in the next year or so. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Applix Word / StarOffice review
hey Mark i have StarOffice 5.2 in RPM form. got it with mandrake 7.1.. are you talking about a different version of SO? or something else? yea, i'm always confuzed Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7:08:03 PM 11/4/00 Larry, It would be wonderful to get SO in RPM form. My Celeron workstation at work just cannot deal with Sun's compression format to get the darn app installed for love or money. -- Mark
Re: [newbie] Applix Word / StarOffice review
As a matter of fact I'm talking about the very thing. I'd really love it if somehow you could make that available to me as an RPM. I just might be able to get SO installed on my workstation that way. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= ** Surprisingly on Fri, 3 Nov 2000 Adrian Smith had this to say! hey Mark i have StarOffice 5.2 in RPM form. got it with mandrake 7.1.. are you talking about a different version of SO? or something else? yea, i'm always confuzed Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7:08:03 PM 11/4/00 Larry, It would be wonderful to get SO in RPM form. My Celeron workstation at work just cannot deal with Sun's compression format to get the darn app installed for love or money.
