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Re: [tlug] Linux on Japanese TV News



On Jan 27, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Dave Brown wrote:

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:03:56PM +0100, Niels Kobsch?tzki wrote:
On Jan 27, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Roger Markus wrote:
You should get a new(er) computer (four years old or newer) and
stop bad-mouthing OpenOffice!

he speaks about using a Mac - and if he's using Mac OS X, unfortunately I
have to say that he's right. The available portages aren't really an option
imho to MS Office. They are slow (and MS Office doesn't preload on Mac OS X
afaik) and they are even less "Mac- like" as MS Office is.
On a Linux- or Windows-machine I would prefer usually Open Office?

For MacOS X, you should be using NeoOffice, which is OpenOffice with proper
Macintosh widgets. It's perfectly acceptable on my G4 Cube with its
blazingly-fast 450MHz CPU.

I used it before and wasn't really lucky with it. Can't tell why - I'm downloading right now 2.0 Aqua Beta 3 with latest patches. I think it was just the "doesn't feel right"-factor (which is very important to me - it's even the main problem of Office 2004 but that felt a little bit better) in spite of having Mac-widgets.
I don't care about office-suits that much these days anyway. I need it only for short letters and translating stuff (TextMate as texteditor is unfortunately not a real option if you need 2Byte- characters for notes and I don't like BBEdit) and opening stuff from lecturers/professors in my university. For everything else (incl. Presentations) I'm happy with LaTeX or plain-text-files with markdown or similar.


Niels


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