Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?
Hi! I'm using applixware 4 on a Debian Potato system. I have an old Pentium 100 with 64Mb RAM only. It looks fine, can read files coming from MS office, and very fast. It takes only few seconds to startup om my machine. So I don't know any good reason to upgrade it, or change it to another office suit. --Pap Tibor On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote: sbello Now I'd like to know whether anybody has experience with the later sbello Applixware 5 on Debian systems. Does it install without problems? installs flawlessly, runs like crap though. for some reason it takes about 5 minutes to load on a p3-500 128MB. tries to load some font server?? or something i dunno i gave up on it, feels worse then corel office, which annoys me when it wont load while mp3s are playing and crashes like mad. sbello I know that it's against the Debian GNU philosophy, but if there's no sbello other application suite with the same features, then I think it's still sbello better than using PowerPoint (that soft of application is the one I'm sbello looking for at most) the other operating system. i liked applixware 4 more, staroffice feels good compared to applixware5 and corel! nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:04pm up 21 days, 21:41, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.06, 0.01 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -.Sig Tibor Pap [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pap Tibor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using applixware 4 on a Debian Potato system. I have an old Pentium 100 with 64Mb RAM only. It looks fine, can read files coming from MS office, and very fast. It takes only few seconds to startup om my machine. So I don't know any good reason to upgrade it, or change it to another office suit. The reason to upgrade is the fact that Applixware 4.4.1 is very buggy. I had the chance to prepare a presentation with it last week and at least the ApplixPresent part (or how it is called) is more than buggy! I hope this is solved in Applixware 5. I don't know of any other /good/ presentation software for GNU/Linux. StarOffice is that slow, you can't use it, and GNOME hasn't one yet. I know there's KPresent, but as I don't have any QT packages installed ... Greetings, Stefan. -- Stefan Bellon * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.sbellon.de/ VirusScan Message: Windows 95 found: Remove it? (Y/n)
Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?
Hi, On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote: A friend of mine runs Applixware 4.4.1 on his Debian system (mixture of potato and woody). But he says that it's quite buggy and looks outdated. But otherwise it performs quite well. For the installation he took the RPMs and alienated them to deb packages. Then he make a link from /opt to /usr/local before installing them with dpkg. I have got Applixware 4.4.1 running on my Alpha with potato installed and am a little bit surprised. This soft always seemed quite stable to me. I had trouble to install the RPMs under RedHat 5.2 using the install executable. So they were installed in fiddling out the dependencies and using the RedHat packet manager. Under Debian the contrary did happen: The install executable worked perfectly well, unpacking and installing the RPMs without conversion to *.deb on the Debian system. Now I'd like to know whether anybody has experience with the later Applixware 5 on Debian systems. Does it install without problems? I leave this to others to answer. I know that it's against the Debian GNU philosophy, but if there's no other application suite with the same features, then I think it's still better than using PowerPoint (that soft of application is the one I'm looking for at most) the other operating system. It should be up to everyone to decide. I am writing my publications on the machine. The stuff has to be exportable to Word. More and more journals insist on WinWord written text send on a floppy together with the printouts. With Applix, I just have to feed the rtf once into one of those Windows beasts at the institute to convert it to a real WinWord doc. (If they do not crash as soon as I just look at them. ;-) ) Regards, Kerstin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?
Aplixware 5.0 runs well for me under Potato. No problems at all with the installation. -- Pedro
Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Stefan Bellon wrote: sbello Now I'd like to know whether anybody has experience with the later sbello Applixware 5 on Debian systems. Does it install without problems? installs flawlessly, runs like crap though. for some reason it takes about 5 minutes to load on a p3-500 128MB. tries to load some font server?? or something i dunno i gave up on it, feels worse then corel office, which annoys me when it wont load while mp3s are playing and crashes like mad. sbello I know that it's against the Debian GNU philosophy, but if there's no sbello other application suite with the same features, then I think it's still sbello better than using PowerPoint (that soft of application is the one I'm sbello looking for at most) the other operating system. i liked applixware 4 more, staroffice feels good compared to applixware5 and corel! nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:04pm up 21 days, 21:41, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.06, 0.01
