Subject: Re: OpenOffice available for NetBSD
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/22/2002 02:18:43
> It would probably not be a bad idea to let people know that the distfile
> for this (well, the bigger of the distfiles) is > 100MB big, and that
> to compile it, some huge amount of space is required (my attempt failed
> after using > 1.2 GB in /usr/obj when the filesystem filled - and that
> was after all pre-requisites were installed and cleaned up).

> The thing makes teTeX, openmotif and mozilla look like beginners toys...

> kre

Thanks for the warning!  Open Office or Star Office would be too much to
download on a 56K dialup connection.  Does the FTP server drop a user after a
certain connect time limit?

I guess Emacs 21.x and Xemacs would also be beginner's toys by comparison.