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Contributed by jose on from the strangte-but-true dept.
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Just install OOo on a Linux box, and copy the installation over. It'll work every time.
This doesn't exactly add much.
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By jose () on http://monkey.org/~jose/
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Then you and others wouldn't need a Linux box of your own.
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And it has worked for other people without a problem. I'm thinking there is some depedency or some subtle change I'm not seeing thats needed.
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By James () quel AT quelrod DOT net on http://www.quelrod.net
Posts like this are not helpful. Extolling that people should just use freebsd or linux does not help the community. There are lots of features that openbsd has such as PF, buffer overflow protections, etc. that make it attractive for use. Features like this can't be touched by other open source os'es. (Not without tons of patches and other fun.)
If you make statements like this then why not just say "it's stupid for anyone to use anything other than windows." I fail to see what you wish to achieve by such a blatently ignorant statement.
I once had the same school of thought that you did until I tried it myself, perhaps you should too.
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By Peter Hessler () spambox@theapt.org on http://www.theapt.org
Hmm, looks like I forgot to not feed the trolls. ;-)
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(pause)
Did *I* say that?
(pretends to look around embarrassed)
I don't tell you what to do. You don't tell me what to do. If everyone thought like this troll did 20 years ago, we'd still be using CP/M or DOS, and ex as our sole editors.
*I* use OBSD as a desktop OS because I like it. Because, for me, despite having nearly 2 dozen machines to mess with, I like having 1 platform which I depend on and am used to for my more critical applications (iow, I'm not running AutoCAD on OBSD and don't pretend to).
If you don't use OBSD as a desktop OS, good for you. At least I hope you tried to before dismissing it.
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By Scott Fraser () sfraser@deckersinc.com on mailto:sfraser@deckersinc.com
I have used OBSD for servers for a few years now. I have been running Linux since late '92. I love my Mac OS X, but the hardware is SO damn expensive compared to PC stuff.
So I am about to migrate my ever faithful Debian/Linux Desktop box, over to a OBSD box...
I don't like Open Office, but will need something under OBSD...Is there ANYTHING else out there that will open and work with MS Office files?
From past experience, I loved my Corel Office for Linux, but there has not been any news about a port to *BSD. What about something like WINE running Office 2000 or Office 97?
Sorry if these sound like dumb questions, and if I am psting in the wrong spot, please re-direct me.
Personally, I love the security of OBSD, and that's enough for me.
Cheers folks,
Scooter
By cc () maxentropic at hotmail dot com on mailto:maxentropic at hotmail dot com
I still use it for my firewall, though. And I applaud these efforts, because they offer the user a _choice_ of OS, which to me is the greatest benefit of open source. It's too bad that some of the larger OSS packages (like Mozilla and OpenOffice) aren't ported to/tested on more platforms, but I understand that there are only so many hours in a day.
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By Dan Jones () dan.jones@colorado.edu on mailto:dan.jones@colorado.edu
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Would be very useful :)
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By Darren () darren@nospam.dazdaz.nospammers.org on mailto:darren@nospam.dazdaz.nospammers.org
Cool! Great job.
I don't personally have space at the moment, but
why not email Open Office themselves, i'm sure they'd be more than happy to host the package.
announce@openoffice.org
webmaster@openoffice.org
Regards
By Jason McVetta () jmcvetta@sfobug.org on mailto:jmcvetta@sfobug.org
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By schubert () on
I would also wonder what version of openoffice was this? They've made 3 minor releases since the first one.