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To: Ted Mittelstaedt
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Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will FreeBSD accept
Office 98 + Publisher?
Ted
Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The publishers got the scent of blood with the Harry Potter books, in
some ways those books ruined the book publishing industry. Before, nobody
thought a mere book could garner that kind of money. Today, they all think
this and so are all looking
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To: Ted Mittelstaedt
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Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices,Will FreeBSD accept
Office 98 + Publisher?
Ted
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
When I wrote my book Addison Wesley used Quark internally, but required
me to submit my manuscript -on paper-. They then retyped it, sent me
the proofs (which had enormous numbers of typos in them) I corrected and
sent back.
I asked them if I gave them the manuscript
Murray Taylor wrote:
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:16:58AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
LaTeX works wonderfully for regularly written documents and Texinfo for
technical documents or procedure manuals. Then for writing web
documents, you can always invest some time in just learning VIM +
colorizing the output, or
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 16:32 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Frankly it's so much easier on wine. If something doesn't work on wine,
s/on/than/
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Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices,Will
FreeBSD accept Office 98 +
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:20:27PM -0400, james thompson wrote:
How difficult is FreeBSD to use in place of MS windows, say compared to
Apple OSX?
Setup is difficult to compare, since OSX always comes pre-installed, and
has a limited range of hardware to contend with.
FreeBSD is more
Dear James
I am afraid the answer is no. FreeBSD is simple enough on its technical
structural but not the kind of simple as to novice user (so the right
question might be if FreeBSD is novice-user friendly enough or easy to
learn enough).
The OS best fitting your requirement could be Ubuntu
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 14:30 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Dear James
run Office 98.
However the OpenOffice office suit which by default installed in SuSE
and Ubuntu is superior than Office 98 in functionality, and can open
your old Office 98 documents just fine
I forgot to mention: using
Zhang Weiwu wrote:
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 14:30 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Dear James
run Office 98.
However the OpenOffice office suit which by default installed in SuSE
and Ubuntu is superior than Office 98 in functionality, and can open
your old Office 98 documents just fine
I forgot to
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On 2007-04-27 22:20, james thompson wrote:
How difficult is FreeBSD to use in place of MS windows, say compared to
Apple OSX? I believe it may be able to run Offide 98; can Office 98
with Publisher be ran on FreeBSD? I want to use FreeBSD to
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 23:58 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
As for running Windows binaries of Office on Wine / Crossoffice, this is
tricky at best.. particularly with newer MS products (what with the
Did you really try to run Windows applications on Crossoffice that
crossoffice claimed to be
OpenOffice in OSX still isn't that great either because there
still isn't a native (Aqua) build.
I suspect the NeoOffice folks would be surprised to hear that :)
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On 4/28/07, james thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How difficult is FreeBSD to use in place of MS windows, say compared to
Apple OSX? I believe it may be able to run Offide 98; can Office 98
with Publisher be ran on FreeBSD? I want to use FreeBSD to compose
articles, and combine them into a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenOffice in OSX still isn't that great either because there
still isn't a native (Aqua) build.
I suspect the NeoOffice folks would be surprised to hear that :)
Yes _.. I mean that the latest and greatest version of OOo isn't
available for Aqua native yet. It's
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Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD simple enough for Novices, Will
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:20:27PM -0400, james thompson wrote:
How difficult is FreeBSD to use in place of MS windows, say compared to
Apple OSX?
Well, it depends on your personality and work habits and expectations.
I find FreeBSD easier to use than MS and have had very little contact
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