On onsdag 7. mars 2001, 06:34, you wrote:
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Konstantin wrote:
Judging by the traffic on applixware list, the product is dying. I'm really sorry for that.
My local Best Buy used to sell Applixware, but I haven't seen it there in months. On the upside, they do have Star Office in stock.
Just to say my "two bits" on this; I would regret if Applixware dissapeared. It was small, fast and had just what I needed. When I installed Suse 7.0, I thought I would try SO 5.2, but it was much too big and slow on my system (Celeron 366, 64MB). So thats why I asked about how to install my version from Office 99 from Suse. When I arrived home this evening I found a letter from Suse with their latest offers (suse v 7.1 etc). And there I found that they also offers Applixware 5.0. So whats the word from Suse on this; is applix 5.0 something one can run on Suse? (se Jonathan Drews comments to my first post) A more general comment is that this illustrates two areas were Linux is weak; the regrettable lack of good office applications (what that is is offcourse a question of taste and needs) - Koffice is now too much of a work in progress, SO too big, Corel WPoffice 2000 too big and difficult to install (and will it exist in 6 months?). Applix sort of fits my bill just now! The second area is installation of software; too many times software is too difficult to install (often demanding compilation; which I'm not scared away from but would drive most other "normal" users right back to windows) or some libraries is either missing, or links get broken under installation. I went for Suse when I started with Linux because they seemed to be the best distro with regards to software packages; and sofar I have not too often been dissapointed by them in this. Cheers to the men and women of Suse for that :-) By the way thanks to Jonathan and Konstantin for their answers :-) Regards Lars Forseth -------------------------- Lars Forseth http://www.uio.no/~forseth MS WIN > /dev/null TUX rules --------------------------