StarOffice

Dpk dpk@egr.msu.edu
Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:55:25 -0400


On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:56:13PM -0400, Paul Melson wrote:

   On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:29:02AM -0400, Sean wrote:
   > Has anyone tried to compile staroffice? I am just curious how
   > well it works. 
   
   	I'd be impressed if anybody in this list has source and has
   	compiled it.  It just comes as kind of a big tarball of
   	binaries from Sun.  It's got a very easy to use setup
   	interface, so just su to root, launch X11 and run the setup
   	script, I use 5.2 all the time.  I just put together a 30+
   	slide show for a conference this week, and I write most of my
   	papers with it so that I can send them as attachments
   	(MSWord97 format).
   
The source code for Star Office was recently released under the GPL:

http://www.openoffice.org/

I personally have not tried to download or compile it.

Dennis