[Discuss] Installing StarOffice 5.2 on modern linux?

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

Thanks for the help. Here's what I turned up with google.

StarOffice 5.2 is available at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/office52

Wikipedia says it was released in 2000. That's pre-RHEL.

I believe Red Hat 8.0 was the last non-RHEL release, and was released in
2002, so it should be in the same historical era as StarOffice.

A quick google search turned up legacy.redhat.com:

https://legacy.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/8.0/en/iso/i386/

The directory contains 5 iso images. Presumably CDs, not DVDs.



On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 9:43?PM Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> On 7/6/25 6:23 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> > I don't currently have any hardware running VM services, and I'd rather
> not
> > spend money on a new server just for this.
>
> My newish laptop has a lot of RAM and I've recently been playing with
> VMs. And QEMU still speaks "BIOS", Firing up something new might be
> easy, I'd be happy to try to install an ancient Linux and Staroffice?if
> you can tell me the OS and I if can figure out how to install Staroffice.
>
> -kb
>
>

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