On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:13:18 +1200 Andrew Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > > Andrew compiling openoffice takes a long time and a large amount of disk space for temp files, and a major RAM upgrade helps the process too. PCBSD is a user friendly OS based on freebesd, with simplified install and binary "PBI" installs available, including one for openoffice. It is pretty darned slick. http://www.pcbsd.org/ http://www.pbidir.com/packages.php?code=295 (for the ooo 2.03 package. A snip at 106 MB :-)
