Re: WordPerfect 8 on Sid
Alan Shutko said:
> And you suggest that WP8 is "perfectly good software". It's not.
> The WP8 that's downloadable has some rather severe bugs across the board,
> and is crippled to boot. The version that was sold wasn't
> crippled, but had the same bugs. The best version out there was the
> version bundled with Corel Linux OS, but where are you going to find that
> these days?
I have it.. tried it 6 months ago on woody and it wouldn't install
either. to access my documents I had to install corel linux in
vmware and corel office in that..
staroffice has been my favorite office suite on linux for several
years primarily because its so generic. that is, it doesn't seem
to depend on some oddball things like special font servers(corel/applix),
wine(corel), and other things that make it difficult to run on
some systems(debian). I never got Applixware 5(I think thats the
version) to run on debian potato back in the day, corel office2000
barely worked on potato(no matter what It would not print graphics
in the documents for me), didn't install at all on woody ....
but staroffice has worked on every machine I've used it on, and
isn't linked against bleeding edge software so runs on almost
anything. it has it's bugs I'm sure, but its the most solid
suite i've used on linux. granted my needs for an office suite are
very minimal, one of those needs is that the program can be
installed, and can be executed without crashing in a few
minutes, and staroffice does it for me....
Staroffice6/openoffice is pretty good too, I bought 3 copies
of staroffice 6 sofar, in my experience, it is not as solid
as star office 5.2, but is better in other areas. I fear they
may be going feature crazy, maybe the next major revision
will depend upon fancy libraries and window managers to run.
nate
(A recent frustration with staroffice 6 under SuSE 8, was that
the installer HUNG while trying to install the user-mode portion
to a home directory mounted over NFS. this worked no problem
on debian/2.2.19, but hung every time to the point where I had
to reboot the machine to terminate the process on SuSE 8/2.4.18
dozens of attempts to kill using various signals were futile.
Staroffice 5.2 had no problems doing this..I suspect the 2.4
kernel's NFS ......)
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