2007/12/31, William Cowburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dear Sirs > > I have just found out about Open Office and it's systems. Would it > work on my Mac and would it offer any substantial advantages over the > operating system which came with the computer? I have just upgraded to > the "Leopard" system but I am not very computer literate. > > Regards > William Cowburn >
Hello William, OpenOffice.org is not an operating system, like Leopard or Tiger (Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.4), but a suite of office applications: a text application, a spreadsheet, a presentation program, a database, a drawing program and a few more. In this way it is similar to iWorks (Pages, Keynote) or the old Appleworks/Clarisworks on Mac, but it is cross-platform (also works on Linux, Windows, etc.) and it is Open Document and Open Source (the program is free to use and a community works at its development). Please take a look at the How-To's on the Mac porting pages of OpenOffice.org: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/x11.html The latest versions of OpenOffice.org run on Tiger as well as on Leopard. Leopard now installs X11 by default (not so with Tiger), but be sure to update Leopard and the X11 windowing utility, since there were problems with the new version of X11 developed for Leopard. I believe the latest X11 is 2.1.1 here: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.1.1 Good luck! -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.3 m221 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo 2.3 RC 3 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
