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Native OpenOffice for FreeBSD
Klaus writes: "As the commit list on Freshports shows, OpenOffice 1.0.0 finally works on FreeBSD! After weeks of hard work, the team managed not only to compile the monster but to make it really run as well. Check it out, but it will take a long time to build... See the commit log here."
I personally think this is great news for those who are running FreeBSD on desktops or workstations for development as well as some Office use. Sure, there is KOffice, Abi Word, Gnumeric and a plethora of other office tools (individual programs or as a suite), but OpenOffice.org 1.0 does a nice job of combining the pieces together.
I've been running Star Office 5.2 (through the Linux compatibility layer) for several months now... it definitely has been very handy to recover data from corrupted Excel and Word documents... as well as to view spreadsheets from people that I'm not so sure about (since OO and SO do not support VB macros, I don't have to worry about worms and the such).
I'm currently downloading and will be building OO with GCC 3.2... hopefully all will go well. Thanks definitely go to the guys helping out with getting the port from entirely broken status to work in -STABLE!
Hope ya got a fat pipe. The source file on that thing is BIG! Something like 116 Meg. Thought I was on the way to getting this thing built, only to find out I had to manually download the latest Java SDK from Sun. Had to agree to something nasty on their site, as well as give them enough information to physically drown 3 humans in marketing brochures.
If you haven't already, go get that Java port taken care of before starting up the build on OpenOffice. Hopefully that'll help out those build it over night kinda folks.
According to the port message, have 6G available to run this build. I'm predicting a 6-7 hour build time, but I guess we'll see. On your mark, get set, who needs spell check anyways?
The line must be drawn here. This far. No further.
My mate with DSL has just finished grabbing the Open Office sources for me - he had to use up his bandwidth allowance because he was moving, so asked me if there was anything I wanted. Silly question... (=
/. doesn't seem to like me reading the BSD section logged in...)
Anyway, huge accolades to all the porters - I've been watching that little "broken" icon on freshports wistfully for many a month now. (And, finally, I can let my gf use my computer! KDE3 and OO, what more does a Mac user need?)
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