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  root42root42@chaos.social

  Nov 6, 2026, 7:48 AM

  When the C++ compiler is so old, that it did not support ISO C++98 or the std:: library correctly.

  
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  root42root42@chaos.social

  Nov 6, 2026, 8:39 AM

  What else do we need? And office suite, obviously! This one needs to have an additional glibc installed, but it came with that provided on the CD.
  #staroffice #linux #retrocomputing

  
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  root42root42@chaos.social

  Nov 6, 2026, 10:04 AM

  So, it does work, and I managed to kludge together an lpd emulator on macOS, so I can even print! But: StarOffice 5.1 requires a registration, which of course is not available anymore. After 30 days this will be non functional...

  
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  root42root42@chaos.social

  Nov 6, 2026, 10:05 AM

  ...but it seems there was a StarOffice 5.1a by SUN Microsystems, which removed the need for registration. Yay!

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  root42root42@chaos.social

  Nov 6, 2026, 12:17 PM

  And for printing on macOS, I set up a network printer in SuSE pointing to the host machine. SuSE 5.2 only supports lpd style printing, and macOS Tahoe does not support that anymore, so here is a small Python lpd emulator:
  https://codeberg.org/root42/lpd-server/src/branch/main/lpd_server.py

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  root42root42@chaos.social

  Nov 6, 2026, 1:53 PM

  And now we can code Motif X11 programs! I think we will have a new Let's Code series coming up.

  
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  PypeBrosPypeBros@mastodon.social

  Nov 6, 2026, 8:00 AM

  @root42 2.7.2.1 must not be that far away from my first GNU tools ... Back then when "EGCS" was still a thing.

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  root42root42@chaos.social

  Nov 6, 2026, 8:02 AM

  @PypeBros oh, I totally forgot about that...

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