[Tfug] linux distro including staroffice 7? or how to read wordperfect docs on linux? or what's up with sun's java desktop

[Adam S. Levy]

 >I'm about to buy staroffice 7 so that my wife can import wordperfect 
docs produced at her office on her laptop that now runs fedora core 2.

Actually, I almost sure that OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) 
imports word perfect documents. It does run on Linux (Windows, Mac, 
Solaris and FreeBSD as well) and is free of cost but you will have to 
download it. Hope this helps.

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So since i'm going to shell out some cash for linux software (something 
i haven't done since crossover office 1), i'd like to get the most bang 
for my buck, so i figured i could get a distro maybe including support 
or other apps for about the same price as staroffice 7 alone ($80). does 
anyone know of a linux distribution that includes staroffice 7?

Andrew Huntwork wrote:

> I'm about to buy staroffice 7 so that my wife can import wordperfect 
> docs produced at her office on her laptop that now runs fedora core 2 
> (possibly much to her dismay -- but it must be better than a win me 
> install that decided not to boot anymore).  Is there another easy way 
> for her to import those docs on linux?  (i actually have corel 
> wordperfect 8 for linux (WINE based) but it is buggy to the extent of 
> truncating documents along with their backup files -- which I found 
> out the hard way 3 times).
>
> So since i'm going to shell out some cash for linux software 
> (something i haven't done since crossover office 1), i'd like to get 
> the most bang for my buck, so i figured i could get a distro maybe 
> including support or other apps for about the same price as staroffice 
> 7 alone ($80). does anyone know of a linux distribution that includes 
> staroffice 7?
>
> It looks like Sun's Java Desktop does have staroffice 7 (along with 
> some other interesting stuff), but i wonder if i'll be able to install 
> SO 7 from java desktop on fedora core 2.  Does Java Desktop use RPM's 
> or what?  Does its packages have normal dependencies?  Basically, 
> what's up with packages on Java Desktop, and specifically, what's up 
> with its staroffice packages?
>
> Thanks for the help.
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