Re: [school-discuss] SOT Office

[Matt Jezorek <matt@bluelinux.org>]

It is compiled with gcc 3.0 and depends on lib_gcc_s.so.2 i believe it is. 
which is why it segfaults
On 27 Apr 2002, Dennis Heuer wrote:

> Am Sam, 2002-04-27 um 11.14 schrieb Karl Sarnow:
> > 
> > 
> > Dennis Heuer wrote:
> > 
> > > Don't know if you already know it but there is another version and/or
> > > concurrent to StarOffice. It is called SOT Office and is a mixture of
> > > OpenOffice and other free source productivity tools. It is free under
> > > the GPL. The developers see this project as an answer to SUN's decision
> > > to make StarOffice commercial.
> > > 
> > > See the press release:
> > > http://www.sot.com/en/linux/soto/
> > > 
> > > Dennis Heuer
> > > dh@onclick.org
> > > 
> > 
> > Nice, but what is the difference to OpenOffice?
> > 
> > THanks
> > Karl
> > 
> 
> 
> I could not test it. It breaks because of the same reason why openoffice
> and staroffice 6.0 break on my system (something with libc). So far I
> can only say that there is not much difference visible yet ;) There are
> some screenshots on the project page. They actually look same like
> openoffice. As far as I understood, SOT office is openoffice with little
> feature enhancement and bug fixing--but not more. It will only be a
> concurrent to staroffice in that the company offers support. That
> support is not free, at least not to non-Bestlinux users. Bestlinux is
> the linux distribution of that company. But patches etc. may arise under
> the GPL. So, if you are fine with openoffice then there is no reason to
> switch. If you seek for a free staroffice then this is at least a
> cheaper offer with open community working on the code.
> 
> Dennis Heuer
> dh@onclick.org
> 

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