* Anders Johansson (andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net) [011003 02:58]: ->On Wednesday 03 October 2001 05.29, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ->> * tom poe (tompoe@renonevada.net) [011002 20:13]: ->> -> ->> ->It shouldn't be too long, between StarOffice and KDE [maybe Gnome?] will ->> be ->able to put out comparable stuff. What do you think? Just a thought, ->> Tom ->> ->> Well, I just spent 2.5 hours downloading StarOffice 6.0 beta ->> whatever..and it does the same thing that OpenOffice build 638 ->> does..when I hit a popdown menu it has an unrecoverable error and ->> exits. Until Sun gets it to run on all current Linux distributions it's ->> dead as fara as I am concerned. I've been running 5.2 under 6.4, 7.0, ->> 7.1 and now 7.2 with little more trouble then it's a bit slow. This POS ->> doesn't run at all. :( ->> ->> It's a case of "get it out the door" and it's sad. -> ->I don't know what a popdown menu is, but if you mean the 'File' 'Edit' 'View' ->etc, they work just fine here. Did you install sun's jdk 1.3.1 that came with ->it? yes...didn't make a difference. -> ->And it's not really 'out the door' is it. It's a beta. I'd be surprised if it ->didn't crash every now and then. Most betas do I haven't seen SO 6.0 work for 3 builds..so I guess running the installer and starting the program isn't doing it correctly? Do I have to tweak it to make it work? -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin