Subject: Re: Successful install of OpenOffice 1.1 release for linux
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/15/2003 16:52:03
In message <Pine.NEB.4.58.0310151543500.4799@iris.absd.org>, David Brownlee wri
tes:
>On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, George Michaelson wrote:
>
>> I just successfully installed the linux 1.1 release on i386 current, with a
>> functional Linux /emul, including java.
>>
>[...]
>>
>> I think the port could be updated from 1.0.3 to 1.1.0 quite safely. I've cc'
>d
>> the port maintainer accordingly.
>
>	Do you know if it works on 1.6.x? Last time I tried a 1.1beta
>	version it didn't like 1.6.1 - almost certainly requiring the
>	better linux emulation available in -current.

I'm running it successfully on 1.6.x, x > 1.  It didn't install for the 
multi-user configuration; I didn't bother figuring out why, since the 
machines concerned are all single user (i.e., me).  Memory sizes range 
from (I think) 256M to 512M.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb