Actually, its not as evil as it seems. I download from the apple OSX site the apple X11 package Once its installed, just add open office. The open office startup program loads X11 and then starts. As to why OO haven't compiled for OSX natively I am not sure, but then again, If I was working for apple, I would probably have developed a local port team and made it available anyway, but then I guess after so many years fighting to get MS to do a office for mac package, they have to keep a safe distance from OO. I keeping dropping notes on the OO website each time they ask me what features I want added, but in the meantime I run it without the integration. It works, and can open attachments automatically once you have it all set up. As for Linux notebooks have you considered the Compaq offering shipping with SUSE installed ? Oliver Jones wrote:
I've very impressed with the iBook I've gotten for my mother. I'm reluctant to hand it over... ;) At least I have my iPod to console myself with.
One downer has been the lack of a MacOS native port of OpenOffice.org. I think my mother will have to buy MS Office for Mac. Which isn't cheap. :( The bundled AppleWorks just doesn't look up to scratch for what she will want, OpenOffice would have sufficed though.
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