A Windows application?!? [LWN.net]

A Windows application?!?

Posted Apr 20, 2005 7:26 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: A Windows application?!? by chohman
Parent article: Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld)

StarOffice was first published for PC-class machines. They used a
proprietary compatibility layer to make it run on various operating
systems. I think Windows and OS/2 were first, and Linux later.

My girlfriend used a program called StarWriter to write her master's
thesis on an Atari ST, but I'm not sure about the relationship, if there
was any, between that program and StarOffice.

Anselm

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A Windows application?!?

Posted Apr 20, 2005 11:46 UTC (Wed) by alain (subscriber, #7119) [Link]

StarWriter is a part of StarOffice. Version 3.1 was the first version of StarOffice running on Linux. The compatibility layer was ported by an employer in his free time. It must have been about '96 or '97.

The whole german Linux community was glad, because until then the only Wordprocessor was WordPerfect via the SCO compatibility layer. Shortly afterwards ApplixWare was available.

Another big bonus was that StarOffice 3.1 for Linux was free (as in beer) for non-commercial use.

A Windows application?!?

Posted Apr 20, 2005 15:37 UTC (Wed) by evgeny (subscriber, #774) [Link]

> It must have been about '96 or '97.
> Shortly afterwards ApplixWare was available.

I have "Applixware for Red Hat LINUX" manual in front of me. It's printed in Novemeber 1995. Can't find the installation CD anymore, though.

A Windows application?!?

Posted Apr 21, 2005 13:16 UTC (Thu) by jedidiah (guest, #20319) [Link]

The key point here is that StarOffice was cross platform long before Sun got it's grubby little paws on it.