root42root42@chaos.social
Nov 6, 2026, 8:39 AMWhat 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.socialNov 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...
- root42root42@chaos.socialNov 6, 2026, 10:05 AM
...but it seems there was a StarOffice 5.1a by SUN Microsystems, which removed the need for registration. Yay!
- root42root42@chaos.socialNov 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 - root42root42@chaos.socialNov 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.
