Re: Is amd64 ready for the desktop?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:13:55 +0000
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:05:38 -0400
> "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > > maintainer.)  I don't know what to do about Openoffice -- that's
> > > serious enough that I contemplated switching back to i386.  In
> > > some
> > 
> > I used openoffice2-2.3.1nb3 this morning on amd64 and it worked like
> > a champ.
> > 
> Some things -- perhaps most things -- do.  I was using it to read Word
> and Powerpoint today, also.  However, I can't save files in Powerpoint
> format. That's serious.  (I posted about this a few weeks ago -- I get
> the error message "Error saving the document ...: Write Error.  The
> file could not be written."  I can save the file in odp format, but
> that doesn't do much good in the real world...
> 

I was remiss in not filing a PR.  It's pkg/38255.  I have reports that
others have reproduced it.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb