John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:16:39 -0800 (PST) > TerryJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > >> Against my better judgment, I tried an amd64 OS version about 6 months ago. >> I could not launch the firefox installed by the OS installer and had to >> re-emerge it (it was a Gentoo-based distro and a good one). I tried in >> vain to install OpenOffice twice before I counted the cost in time too high. >> >> I am sceptical that software development has caught up with amd64. I would >> ditch your OS and go back to a plain i586 or whatever Ubuntu has and get an >> OpenOffice version that works. > > Each to his own. I bought this amd-64 laptop in May, 2005. First I > tried Suse, then Mandriva, Fedora, and finally Ubuntu -- all 64-bit > versions. All worked perfectly except for the video -- Ubuntu was the > only one that found and automatically configured the video, so that's > why I settled on Ubuntu. That was all the way back with Hoary.
Too true about "each to his own". I started with SuSE and you couldn't pry me away from it with an iron pole. I tried Fedora Core once, and the installation was a total failure in my mind. Though I would suspect that OpenOffice is to the point where distributions would automatically bundle it with their software, at least the bigger distributions. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
