Hello Anne,
It may be possible to do this (be easy now Harry, I am not volunteering
yet! -- grin)
Open Office is a full blown replacement for M$ Office (you can work
with M$ Office documents all the way up to windoze XP).
The Gimp is a photo editor similar to PhotoShop.
Film Gimp is an editor that is like using Photoshop on movies -- many
studio use this to make cgi movies (Stuart Little etc)
Emacs is well, heck, just about anything you want it to be; text
editor, mail reader, program runner, etc.
X11 is a great way to get these Unix and Linux based programs easily
running on Mac OS-X.
If you are into map making you can also run G.R.A.S.S. easily now via
X11 (The big competitor in the windoze world is the ArcView line of
products which cost several thousands of dollars per machine)
Jerry
p.s. X11 gives you the ability to use high powered software on you Mac,
a choice that used to mean you had to buy a Solaris workstation or its
equivalent to run before.
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 05:13 AM, Anne Cartwright wrote:
> Is there by chance a LCS meeting program in this? In other words, is
> X11 something that a few of us non-geek Mac users might enjoy
> attempting?
>
> What's required (besides knowledge) to run X-windows programs. Would
> any of those Unix and Linux programs which can be run on the Mac (Open
> Office, The Gimp, Emacs and Matlab) be of interest or use to the likes
> of us?
>
> Anne
>
>
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> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
> | be February 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
>
>
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| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be February 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
