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

[J. Edward Durrett]

On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 11:45 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

>
>>>> 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.


Well, switching back and forth is almost the same as having a gnome 
desktop on  tty1 and using alt+f2 to switch to a command line or 
another window manager -- the exception being, you can just click on on 
application that is running and you switch environments.  
Theoretically, I could also run other windows managers but I have found 
that most stuff can be run in X11.

If that doesn't fit what you mean by pragmatically, let me know.

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

Thanks for the offer but I can't commit to a time in the next six 
months.  I don't  use OS X for anything but my desktop operating 
environment so I can not comment much on how it differs from "true" 
UNIX.  As far as the command line and directory structure is concerned, 
it is pretty much like any of the BSD's that are floating around out 
there.

With that said, anyone who has a question about OS X (or Debian) is 
free to email me.  I will be happy to share what I know.

>> 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.
>

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!  This was in fact my biggest problem with OO -- and 
it was my problem.  I am ashamed to explain a the way I used to work 
around this problem.