Re: [tlug] Linux on Japanese TV News

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

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