Linux-Hams archive - April 1998: StarOffice etc. for Linux

StarOffice etc. for Linux

Jochen Kmietsch (kdvoss@mail.dy.fi)
Tue, 07 Apr 1998 14:32:17 +0200 (CEST)

Hello !
I am risking getting slightly off topic, but I think StarOffice for Linux is a
pretty neat thing, and I just wanted to point everybody who is interested to
http://www.stardivision.com/download/index.html
that's the download form for StarOffice 4.0 International for Linux. I think there
are mirror sites all over the world. It's pretty big, >40MB so people with a slow
connection might considering getting it on CD, don't have a source handy for that,
though. People capeable of the German language should use www.stardiv.de.
Applixware is more "UNIX-integrated", while WordPerfect runs with the SCO emulator,
if I remember right, that iBCS2 thing. The StarOffice you can get from Caldera is
licensed for commercial use, I think. BTW, I am not paid by StarDivision, I just
thing that it's pretty neat to make that rather good office package available for
Linux. I have a 486DX2/66 with 24 MB RAM and StarOffice runs at acceptable speeds,
which - I haven't tried but I am pretty sure - Win95 with M$ Office would not.
Ok, hope I won't get a ton of flames now, better get outta here :) Don't want to
start that if you want to have really good looking documents you should use LaTeX
anyway :) I don't miss a single program I used under DOS/Win, there are equal or
better replacements under Linux, they are just harder to find and install.
Jochen
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