[KLUG Members] recommended office suite

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>Ah, it's the colossal errors that make the best stories.
>For OpenOffice, there is a Windows version, a Solaris version, and -two-
>Linux versions.
>I went to a different site and downloaded the tar.gz again.  Funny how it
>didn't ask to overwrite the file.  Upon investigation I discovered it had a
>slightly different name.  The names are listed below for your amusement and
>edification:
>OOo_1.0.1c_LinuxPPC_installer.tar.gz
>OOo_1.0.1c_LinuxIntel_installer.tar.gz
>Hmmm, if the new one is called "Intel" then the other one must have something
>to do with the processor.  What could PPC be, I wonder?  

A Power PC based computer,  IBM's flagship processor.

>A Mac?  No, that would be called Motorola.  

Nope, Macs have been Power PC boxes for some time now.  The Motorola 680x0 is
long dead.  Mac users typically call them by pixie dust names such as G3 or G4
rather than the actual processor designation.  Much like the Duron and
Thunderbird stupidity.  I thought thunderbird was a car?  Or a loose translation
of "pteredon"?

>But, what does Mac call their computers nowadays?  ....

Apple,actually sold re-branded IBM RS/6000s for awhile as 'Apple Servers'.  But
there are several derivations of the PPC lineage even besides RS/6000 (now
pSeries) and Mac.

>All together now: Power PC!

Yep.

>With a little work, the install has now been successful.  There are actually
>two installs.  A preliminary one and one for each user.

Cool