StarOffice Office Suite

StarOffice is a full-featured office suite available from Sun Microsystems. It can be purchased on CD-ROM for a very modest cost or downloaded free. StarOffice has features similar to Microsoft Office, Lotus SmartSuite, and so on. StarOffice includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, drawing program, e-mail client, HTML editor, and PIM. There is also a database available. StarOffice can be installed from the FreeBSD ports collection under the editors directory.

Caution

If you plan to download StarOffice from the Internet rather than purchase it on CD, be aware that it is about a 95MB download. If you have a modem connection to the Internet, the download can take eight hours or more. Make sure you do ...

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