Hello sheine, I am not sure what qualifies for serious work. I have been using StarOffice 5.2 since it came out for serious and productive work without nearly the amount of lost work as I had previously with any MS office product. It's not perfect but it is more reliable than MS products I have spent years pulling my hair out over.
I installed SO6.0 on one of my machines (Debian Potato 2.2.17) and have begun to play a little with it. To do so, after I down loaded the file (something.bin) I had to do a chmod +x so-6.something.bin and then ./so-6.something.bin (sorry I don't remember the full name) and the whole install process started and completed in under five minutes. It all worked fine after that. I suggest that, since this is a beta release, the license states what it does because it is exactly that...beta software. I hope this helps. T. Tilton sheine wrote: > > Tommi Komulainen wrote: > > Just a thought, you weren't planning to do anything productive with, or > did you? If you did, guess you'd better reconsider: > > This message caused me to reconsider the several years that I have fooled > around with linux. Maybe it is just a computer game, not a serious tool. It > doesn't crash like Windows, but no matter how well things are going, a new > problem always arises. In the absence of good documentation, the best way to > solve a problem is to go to this web site. But a tool is something that works > when you need it and doesn't continuously call attention to itself. > > I suppose that this will offend real linux enthusiasts for whom building > linux is the goal. However, for ordinary people like me, what is wanted is a > reliable tool at least as good as Windows, without subservience to Microsoft. > > I shall continue to play the linux game, but regrettably depend on Windows > for serious work. Would that it were otherwise. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]