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 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 in the Athena Computing Environment is currently unsupported. By "unsupported" we mean:
Sun has a Knowledge Database and FAQ
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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