Subject: Re: Star Office
From: David Barnum (barnum81@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Sep 09 1999 - 21:48:32 MDT
Rich Lafferty wrote:
> Quoting David Barnum (barnum81@earthlink.net) from Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 11:02:25PM -0400:
> > Has anyone tried to run star-office on YDl, should I get it or what
>
> Color me naive, but I don't see it available for linux on ppc. Or
> have you found something I missed?
>
> For what it's worth, I ran it on a linux/intel machine for a while;
> it's a hell of an MS Office clone, inasmuch as it's possibly the
> third most bloated piece of software in the world :-)
>
> Actually, it's probably not so bad; I'm not the sort that uses office
> applications regularly, and it was on a slowish machine. In any case,
> it *does* make high demands on hardware.
>
> I'll be sticking with emacs and TeX. (You can debate amongst yourselves
> as to whether those, or Windows and MS Office, are what I consider the
> first and second most bloated piece of software :-)
>
> -Rich
>
I was just curious if it was possible to run it I haven's seen anything mentioned
specifically about YDL so I guess Iam the naive one
Dave
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