[plug] StarOffice 6 (was: DTP)

[Leon Brooks]

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 13:41, Anthony Jones wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2001 13:26, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > Anthony Jones wrote:
>>>> It really depends on what Frank wants to achieve. If he wants a word

>>> processor then StarOffice seems to be the best thing I've seen so far.
>>> Note that StarOffice 6.0 doesn't appear to work with X version 4 (at
>>> least on my

>> It works stunningly well here, and the anti-aliased fonts just do it for
>> me. Grab the latest openoffice build, you won't look back.

> It manages to completely lock my computer when running the following
> version of X. X just starts gobbling up memory and then the whole machine
> freezes. This is the version which comes with Debian Woody. It works on my
> machine (across the network) with XFree86 version 3.3. The problem may be
> specific to the savage driver (for my Savage IV card).

I tried it on an hp OmniBook (4.1.0 on a Savage4 IIRC) and it totally froze 
the machine at the start of the install (as it popped open the main install 
window). Better luck next time. I'll have a stab at this box, 4.1.0 on 
Banshee, and see how it goes.

Cheersd, Leon