Of course it reeks of flipping Linux, it was ported to OSX. Like many things adopted by OSX, they're just ported from somewhere else. I may be wrong and you dont need X11 to run OpenOffice but I doubt it.
I have once run OpenOffice just to have a peek. I needed X11 to do so. I can't find my way around a unix shell and I don't want to either.
It works using eXodus, requiring 8mb of mac memory and OS7.x or above, the program, soffice in this case, opens in a window on the mac desktop like a normal mac app.
Okay. I get the picture
I would imagine you could do it with openoffice on your imac hooked to one of your other lowend macs. I have no 030 macs here at the moment or I'd be tempted to try. All you need is a rsh server on the unix-like box, a couple of other servers could be enabled to provided other or better functions across your local network.
Can you nativly enable a rsh server under OSX? Can you make use of one with the X11 port? Would you know how to secure it to only the local network?
It is probably all possible, but I am not really inclined to do it. It is nice to be able to run openoffice, but I do not want to actually use it. In my book it is not a very nice program, I don't like MS Office either. I prefer to keep things simple: WriteNow and Clarisworks 2.
Be nice if some of you could work out that its not a "us against them" situation, cross-platform is a good, useful thing and expands your mac and how you use it.
I agree with you. The Internet is the living proof of how enriching the unix (or to be more precise the openstep) world has been for both Mac and Windows. Cross platform technology is very important if we want to keep those vintage macs usefull.
Marten
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