[KLUG Members] Fwd: Look inside OpenOffice.org 1.1 beta

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> >> OpenOffice.org contains virtually the same feature set as StarOffice,
> >> making it a true alternative to expensive, proprietary office suites 
> >> like
> >> Microsoft Office and WordPerfect Office. In addition, OpenOffice.org 
> >> runs
> >> on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X. The ability to use the same
> > Hasn't anyone here tried the OS/X port?
> I have been using it since February.  It does not run in Aqua so X 
> windows needs to be installed.  Apple's X11 is fairly straight forward 
> to install.

I understand conceptually the difference between Aqua/X11, but having
never used OS/X for more than a few minutes I'm not entirely clear on
what that means pragmatically.

Maybe a presentation on OS/X?  Where it is like "real" UNIX and where it
differs?

> OO is very stable on my ibook however it takes a very long time to 
> start.  

This is generally true on all platforms.  But allot of effort is going
towards the elimination of that annoyance.

> I usually just keep it running.  

That is what I do; with 1Gb of RAM - who cares...

> Also, I can't figure out how 
> to import a tab delimited file into a spreadsheet -- any clues?

Do it all the time (on Linux at least).  File open, change file type to
"Text CSV", select your file...  Yes, it isn't really a CSV but that
seems to be a catch all category for all ascii-ish delimited files.