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Re: staroffice



Hi, 

  Where can I find staroffice 5.1 in .deb package?  I searched
  the www.debian.org and found the installer for 3.1 but not
  the 5.1.

  Thanks!

David Teague wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Nick Croft wrote:
> 
> ? On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Teague wrote:
> ?
> ? ? On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> ? ?
> ? ? ?
> ? ? ? StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig.  It handles MS file formats fairly
> ? ? ? well though.
> ?
> ? It may be the only use for SO, take a Word .doc and turn it into something
> ? Unix or universal like html.
> ?
> ? How fast does a computer need to be? I thought 133mh was slow. Put it on a
> ? 333mh box today and it's no faster. Even at 600+ it would be slow if
> ? processor is the clue to speed.
> 
> Nick
> 
> I think speed here just might be a function of amount of memory. SO
> is a memory hog.
> 
> I have an AMD 350 on a 100 MHZ mother board with 128 MB RAM and 128
> MB swap, with fairly fast (about 6ms) ide hd (but DMA not enabled),
> running Potato and SO 5.1, My window manager is FVWM2.
> 
> SO is slow starting, but no slower doing any task than Word 97 and
> Win 98 on the same machine.
> 
> --David
> David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
> Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
>                  useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
>                  (I hope this is all of the above.)
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