6.0-RELEASE as an office desktop?

[Jack L.]

> > I installed the distributed Gnome 2-2.10.2 and generally like it.
> > Because Gnome's mail tools don't do IMAP with local mail storage for
> > off-line use, I installed the thunderbird-1.0.6 package. It is usable,
> > but has problems fixed in 1.0.7 or 1.5.  I attempted to build 1.5 from
> > ports, and while the result worked, shared library changes apparently
> > broke Gnome, so I reinstalled 6.0-RELEASE and went back to 1.0.6.
> > Finally, it appears that no Open Office package is available for
> > 6.0-RELEASE (1.0.3_6 wants much older ORBit and glib).  I started to
> > build OO from ports, but the makefile warned me it needed 9GB free,
> > which would require another cycle of re-installation to obtain.
>
> I package OpenOffice for FreeBSD. There are many available packages for
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. You can obtain precompiled binaries for FreeBSD 6.0 at
http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd and clicking on Obtaining/available
packages.