[KLUG Members] recommended office suite

[bill]

and belated thanks to you too, Adam, and to Wesley & Daniel

adam@morrison-ind.com wrote:

> >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
>
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