Re: Re. Star Office 6
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.
>
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