Contributed by jose on from the compatability-required dept.
David's recipe is available from his message to the ports list . A native version just requires too many changes, many of which have not been identified.
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Contributed by jose on from the compatability-required dept.
David's recipe is available from his message to the ports list . A native version just requires too many changes, many of which have not been identified.
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PS: emacs is more bloated than MS Office!
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By Anonymous Coward () on
Word -> Emacs/Vim + LaTeX
Excel -> Xess
Powerpoint -> Magicpoint
Outlook -> Procmail + Pine
I'm really honest, you'll get way much better results with free software, moreover, it's free.
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Last time I used word/wperfect/others the 'esc' + 'j', 'h', etc.. were broken and wouldn't move up, down, ... would print characters I didn't mean to type
Many other nice features were broken too and that forced me to use the goddamned mouse.. pfff!
By kremlyn () on
I'm all for alternatives, but please.. if we're intelligent enough to use OpenBSD, lets be intelligent enough to use the right tool for the job.
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By Anonymous Coward () on
so let's remove linux_emul, since you're using it for applis you can't recompile, and therefore you don't have the source they may be backdoored.
sorry, but between security and features, I choose security.
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We post a calendar on the internal company website.
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> Outlook -> Procmail + Pine
You've got to be freaking kidding me...
Get a brain. Grow up. Come down to Earth. Get a life.
By Anonymous Coward () on
i'm not going to start on emacs as i feel it is the primary tool the devil will use to ascend to earth upon the apocalypse.
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Learn how to spell please.
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By RC () on
We have MPlayer, Mozilla, and now OpenOffice. Is there anything else that anyone is missing?
I know that covers everything I need (well, it will as soon as I spend a little more time getting gs6.51 to work with gimp-print).
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By Jeroen () on
One thing that irritates me on MS Windows is that they provide us the tools we must use. If we want alternatives, we have to download those 3rd party tools from the internet. Sometimes, those are commercial programs. NFS, for example (and those NFS programs even don't run nice in my experience).
It's also good for OpenBSD competition @ desktops. For example OpenBSD as X server. If OpenBSD can compete with other *BSD's/Linuces, even that i'm not needing that competition myself, i see it as a good thing. Also, it stops the whining "it runs on Linux/FreeBSD" which is good for the health of OpenBSD users ;-)
The fact that *YOU* don't need it, doesn't mean it's obselete for the OpenBSD community.
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Yeah, I guess you're missing a brain.
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By RC () on
As for CUPS, I'll stick with lpd... It works just fine, doesn't have the problems that CUPS does (what? your USB printer needs to be on every time CUPS starts!), and really doesn't have the security problems that CUPS has had.
And you don't need to have a postscript printer... you just use ghostscript or any other print-filter, along with lpd, and you're set.
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Besides, it was around 3.2's release that Mozilla started working well... I'd bet you'll see it in 3.3.
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Moz is a Big Fat Pig!
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By RC () on
If you've got some REAL benchmarks that prove my expirence was unique, I'd be glad to look at them. However, it seems everyone has convinced themselves that Phoneix is better just because the author says so.
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By Anonymous Coward () on
So I'll stick with small, minimalist and fast browsers like links and dillo :)
I heard that Apple's new browser (Safari, based on khtml) is very fast. Hopefully Apple will donate back its improvements to the opensource community, so that we might have a fast, portable, khtml-based browser in the near future :)
Actually I don't have a clue on _what_ these browsers are wasting their time when starting up anyway. Oh well, probably they're all just way too bloated...
I wonder how IE keeps startup time low... but probably it's almost completely loaded into memory all the time, since it's part of the os. That would kinda explain way windows eats so much ram when it's idle.
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By kojiro () masst181@pitt.edu on mailto:masst181@pitt.edu
'nuff about windows.
In my limited experience, Safari is unstable.
On my PIII OpenBSD box, though, mozilla is unstable too. Mozilla won't run, but firebird will. Go figure.
By Anonymous Coward () on
Is there a reason for this? (eg. broken install script?)
Are there any plans to create a port for OpenOffice (not a native build, but a linux-emulation port, like eg. opera)?
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By RC () on
You mostly nailed it... The scripts are okay, it's the binary installer that craps-out on OpenBSD. I did quite a bit to get the Linux OpenOffice binary to install on OpenBSD, without success... I guess the solution was not to try.
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By jose () on http://monkey.org/~jose/
i'd be curious to hear detailed output from someone who has been trying openoffice on openbsd native. i haven't allocated the time or space to it.
By AC () on
OpenOffice, LaTeX enough for me...
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By RC () on
You really can't call Mozilla portable... It just happens to have been hacked to work on every platform you've used, by the time you used it.
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OpenBSD supports my Digital Camera just fine, and I'm sure that there are many models of scanners, MP3 players, and more. Sure, unlike Windows, you can't just buy anything and expect that you can get it working (even in Windows it's not that simple). All systems have their trade-offs, and OpenBSD's tradeoffs aren't nearly as bad as any of the other OSes, in my opinion (although I have yet to try Mac OS X).
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It's not the best you could hope for, but it's working.
My first attempt was to do a multi-user install, but that didn't work so well... When you first run it, the setup program starts as usual, but it seems to exit prematurely... After that, OpenOffice will start, but seems a bit useless. It was unable to open an OpenOffice spreadsheet I had saved, and crashed when I tried to save one I made from scratch. It might be made to work, but not without some effort, and it doesn't matter that much to me...
Next, I made a single-user installation, and it worked fairly well. Unlike the net install, it seems to be working almost perfectly. So far, I haven't had any problems with it , but I haven't been using it very long.