Jamie,
I got OO working fine on my mother's in law imac. The trick seemed to
be finding the proper version. You have to get neooffice
http://www.neooffice.org/ otherwise you have to go through all sorts of
crap with X.
-Mike
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 12:35, LinuxRocks! wrote:
> So... I too have a mac related problem. My mom has been using a mac for
> a few months now (mac mini), she needs word processing... she hates
> appleworks to the point where she refuses to use it. I think i tried OO,
> but it didnt install or work. MS word seems to work for her, but arg!
> anything but that! So... she has a mac mini with whatever the current
> osx is (computer is ~6mos old).
>
> Im wondering if i should try ubuntu on it? or of thats going to be a
> collosal project that takes all of my time for 2 weeks to get working?
>
> Any other ideas to solve her word processing issues ?
>
> Jamie
>
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 11:21:17AM -0700, Jason LaPier wrote:
> > From: "Jason LaPier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group'" <[email protected]>
> > Subject: RE: [Eug-lug] Mac hints?
> > Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 11:21:17 -0700
> > X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11
> >
> > XFree86 on osx was pretty good for me for a while
> > http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/ (I think you either need the OSX
> > DVD to do the install, or get an Apple Dev account and download from their
> > dev site).
> >
> > Also, if you just need some standard *nix stuff that's not in OS X, there's
> > DarwinPorts (http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/) and Fink
> > (http://fink.sourceforge.net/). The combination of all those got me through
> > about five months of working with my G5 at work before I said eff it and now
> > it dual boots with Ubuntu-PPC.
> >
> >
> > Jason LaPier
> > Network Manager
> > TACS / WRRC
> > University of Oregon
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Hudson
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:14 AM
> > > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group
> > > Subject: [Eug-lug] Mac hints?
> > >
> > > I'm using a Mac at work. I've gotten accustomed to certain
> > > features of a Linux desktop and have some switch pains.
> > >
> > > Virtual desktops:
> > > Solved with: http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/
> > >
> > > The terminal works fine for me but some people like iTerm.
> > >
> > > One thing I'm missing is "focus follows mouse". Anyone know
> > > how to do this on a Mac?
> > >
> > > Other tips to Mac software or tweaks welcome. :)
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rob
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