Star Office at MIT

# Software at MIT

## Name: Star Office
Category: Office Suite
Last modified: Wed Aug 28 19:42:24 2002
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## Contents

- What is Star Office? Where does it come from?
- Star Office on Athena
- Star Office at MIT
- Other Resources

## New (7/5/02): Star Office 6.0 now available

## What is Star Office? Where does it come from?

Star Office is an Office Suite that runs on a variety of platforms including Solaris and Linux. It has recently been acquired by Sun Microsystems and is being freely distributed.

## Star Office on Athena

Star Office 6.0 is the current default on Athena for Sun and Linux (i.e., this is the version you get by typing: `add soffice;soffice`). It is not available for SGI.

General usage information can be found in the What Runs Where listing and in the soffice locker in file /mit/soffice/README.athena. We also have some local "getting started" pages. There is a fairly extensive online help system that explains most features. A number of commercial guides are available, including Star Office for Linux, published by Howard SAMS.

## Star Office at MIT

Star Office in the Athena Computing Environment is currently unsupported. By "unsupported" we mean:

- We try to provide current versions of Star Office on all Athena platforms it is available for.
- The Athena Consultants may be able to help Athena users with some basic Star Office questions in OLC, but they will not all be familiar with it.
- Faculty members interested in using Star Office for instructional purposes should contact the Faculty Liaisons.
- If you are a member of the MIT community and want to use Star Office on a non-Athena computer, you can get your own copy.

## Other Resources

Sun has a Knowledge Database and FAQ

## Problems or Questions?

Help with Star Office
A set of help pages has been prepared that documents some of the features in StarOffice, plus known problems with using StarOffice on Athena. If you are affiliated with MIT, contact Athena Consulting (on Athena, type "olc"). Otherwise, see the other resources above or contact the vendor for help.

Sending bug reports
Athena users should report problems via the "sendbug" command.

Software at MIT
Questions or suggestions about availability of software on Athena should be sent to 3partysw@mit.edu.

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