On Saturday 12 August 2006 19:22, Reg wrote: > Well I don't really need this OOo thingy, I take it that's a presentation > type thing. It's the free software world's competition for MS Office. It purports to do the same things, but it's by no means 100% bug-for-bug compatible. It has features which MS Office does not, and it's taking the world by storm.
http://www.openoffice.org/ > Wife is locked into power point as that's what they can run at > her work and she has only just started using a computer so is not going to > want to learn anything else as well. Understandable. > She can keep using my 466 xp based > machine and I will do my browsing and mail and stuff on the old 333 if and > when I can get something running on it to replace my old 98SE. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 12 August 2006 7:13 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Suse > > Rik Tindall wrote: > > yuri wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure FreeBSD has KDE too. And OOo. > >> One of theses days I'll give it a whirl. > > > > I believe you're correct, but they're not on the disks (heavy d/l) > > KDE and Gnome are on 6.1-RELEASE disk 2. OOo is not and it can take a > long time to build from source. Don't even nightmare about building OOo from source except on very modern machines. Binary installs for FreeBSD-6 can be downloaded from here:- ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/2.0.3/FreeBSD6 Approx 110Megs = ~5:30 hours on 56k dial-up. -- CS
