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I am using Star Office 5.2 that come with my Sun Blade 100. Noted that
there is Open Office 6.3 available in public. Should I install Open
Office instead? Is that a new install or an upgrade? What's the major
different?

Bosco, I am not sure what OpenOffice is.  StarOffice 5.2 is the latest
version
from Sun.  There is a beta of StarOffice 6.0 available, where the big
difference is
performance.  In the new version, each module will be separate, so you won't
wait as long to load the application each time.

OpenOffice may be the open source version that Sun put out for the Linux
community.

J

Quote:> I am using Star Office 5.2 that come with my Sun Blade 100. Noted that
> there is Open Office 6.3 available in public. Should I install Open
> Office instead? Is that a new install or an upgrade? What's the major
> different?

Quote:> Bosco, I am not sure what OpenOffice is.  StarOffice 5.2 is the latest
> version
> from Sun.  There is a beta of StarOffice 6.0 available, where the big
> difference is
> performance.  In the new version, each module will be separate, so you
won't
> wait as long to load the application each time.

Sorry!! you will be disappointed if that's what you think. OO/SO6 is
still one large single process and in my tests it is slower to load and
needs more memory than SO5.2.  Note SO5.2 dynamically loads so it only
loads what you need anyway.

Quote:> OpenOffice may be the open source version that Sun put out for the Linux
> community.

Nope.
OO is available for several platforms (including Solaris). Read more at:
http://www.openoffice.org

James Lee.

Quote:> I am using Star Office 5.2 that come with my Sun Blade 100. Noted that
> there is Open Office 6.3 available in public.

I think you are thinking of OOo 638C. The latest OOo release is 641b.
There is a parallel StarOffice version which is not open which is at 6
beta release.

Quote:> Should I install Open
> Office instead? Is that a new install or an upgrade? What's the major
> different?

New install. Main difference is the desktop has gone. So to have several
important modules: e-mail, newsreader, browser (which admittedly was way
behind), scheduler, image editor. As I troff my docs still that most of
what was useful.

[...]

I see they still havn't fixed the problem with proper line formatting in
StarOffice's "newsreader" (evidenced by the "=20" at the end of every line).

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On 04 Dec 2001 14:05:44 -0600

Well, the "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable" should make your
news reader get rid of the "=20" and "=" line endings. Mine does.

Looks like we have found something Gnus can't do ;-)

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On 4 Dec 2001 22:15:03 GMT

Jus' kiddin' guv'.

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you've missed the point.
The point is that the =20 indicates that the lines are not actually getting
wrapped. Therefore, staroffice's newsreader is not being friendly.

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