OpenOffice, 5.3 Release, AMD64: is it true there's no love?

Lars Tunkrans lars.tunkrans at bredband.net
Fri Feb 25 22:52:48 GMT 2005


Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Francois Tigeot wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm afraid the OpenOffice code is not clean enough to run as a 64-bit
>>binary.
>>
> 
> 
> so.. there is no way to run any openoffice on FreeBSD/amd64? I think I've
> to reconsider buying an amd64 system then...
> 

    It is of course possible to install the i386 FreeBSD 5.3 port  on an AMD64 system.
I have both i386 and AMD64 installations on my Athlon64 3800+  machine. That way I can
experiment with 64 bit environment and run 32 bit apps.

  //Lars



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