soffice works on 486

[slana <suslosit ptialaska net>]

Yes, just to give credit to the product, I downloaded it a couple
months ago and after a number of botched attempts due to the erratic
nature of my ISP finally got a clean program. Carefully following
instructions I found myself with a working version of so5.0 on a dx2/66
with a buggy VLB video card using that CirrusLogic 24x chip which drove
me wild trying to get more than 256 colors. 

  Still at 256 (thankfully its my "practice" machine), but hey the thing
works under RH 5.2 with "stock" drivers. Its a huge and ponderous beast
on such a machine but I have to give it credit. I can xhost it running
kde on another terminal through my main machine and it works about as
fast as the ol TI-99 I once used in the dark ages. 

  It also was able to convert and print an Office 97 doc from my wife's
office that Win 95 choked on. Though at times certain fonts and special
formatting can throw things off a bit.

  Could be nice on a fast machine. I would probably use it more often.

Good Luck !