[nzlug] MS Word in School Macs

[Michael J. Knox]

I used NeoOffice for a while and besides being a little slow to start on
my 900mhz G3 with 256Mb of RAM, I found no fault with it. I think I
would fall under the "normal" day to day user of an office suite.
Nothing complex etc. 

Michael

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 23:48 +0300, Mathew Carley wrote:
> [Note: As I have not downloaded NeoOffice in quite some time, I actually 
> researched and corrected myself in parentheses within the paragraph 
> while writing this message, hence the apparent randomness. Or it could 
> be because the Midnight Sun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_sun is 
> getting to me. It's 23:48 and I can still see outside.]
> 
> 
> While NeoOffice doesn't look like a robust replacement candidate now, 
> imagine what it could potentially be like in 2-3 years?
> 
> I personally would be interested in porting OOo 2.x (or 3.x, 4.x if they 
> are up to that version by 2009-2010) to the Mac platform, and if it 
> takes on the Aqua interface and replaces NeoOffice/J (which is still 
> based on OO 1.x isn't it?) then all the better. (I stand corrected 
> http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php - Important: After 
> installing, get the latest bug fixes by downloading and installing the 
> latest NeoOffice patch installer.)
> 
> Why not just get a slightly more stable version (2.0 instead of 2.1)? 
> Then again, older doesn't always mean better :)
> 
> With all the new code-y stuff on Macintosh these days, whats stopping 
> someone from porting it directly and/or using Cocoa or xtools or 
> whatever is at their disposal now to make it work -especially on the 
> Intel-based Macs. The source code is there. It's GPL - go, use it! (Oh 
> wait, after a quick read: 
> http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/faq/aqua-prerelease/index.html its 
> being done... and OOo for PowerPC based Macs with X11 is done...)
> 
> So... uh... anyway... going back to my original statement. OOo for MacOS 
> X *OR* NeoOffice. 2 years (+1 to make a decision). Any questions? Go.
> 
> Mathew
> 
> >
> > I also agree that NeoOffice does not look like a robust replacement
> > candidate... although I suppose most school kids aren't exactly power
> > users :)
> 
> 
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