[Techtalk] Star Office 6

[Raena Lea-Shannon]

Re

Message: 11
From: Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 16:03:06 -0700
Subject: [Techtalk] Star Office 6

Hi Techtalkers,

For anyone who's into to doing something besides endlessly tweak your
Linux
boxen -I know, it's fun, who needs anything else? ;-)  -  Star Office 6
beta
is quite nice. There's some installation weirdness, the instructions are
for
a CD install, which isn't very helpful for the download version. And
there is
no CD.

http://www.sun.com/staroffice/6.0beta/
http://supportforum.sun.com/staroffice/

If, like me, you tried 5.x and loathed it, give it another try. It's had
a
major overhaul. I'm confused by the relationship between StarOffice and
OpenOffice, but oh well, it'll sort itself out.

Anyway if you're looking for a high-power native Linux office suite, and

don't want to spend $99 for AnyWare, which used to be Applixware, and
which
has been my main workhorse, have fun with Star Office 6. This beast is
good-
who says Linux can't do the desktop?

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Carla Schroder, Ace PC Goddess
Plain English Spoken Here
www.bratgrrl.com
this message brought to you by Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 8.1

I have SO 5.2 and like it alot. It has a very nicely integrated office
suite including browser photoshop and prsentation stuff. It is handy
for working across platform to M$ docs. My one BIG problem is that with
the Red Hat 7.1 Linux Installation the Email in SO 5.2 does not run
sendmail properly. I have begged all the Star Support Lists to post up a
fix for this and no one has.

Can you tell me if SO 6 has this sorted?

Raena