Clarification here: you really replaced a program suite that you
paid $400 for with open source NeoOffice? Pardon my doubt here, but
Microsoft Office is the 'gold standard'. I can't imagine that any
open source would run as fast or offer as many features. Now I do
have to qualify this statement (critique) by saying that I've never
tried any of the open source software available and I would need some
pretty convincing evidence to get me to chuck out Office 2004 in
favor of something written in java and needing to have X11 added to
my computer. How about some real world examples. When I click on
Word, it opens in seconds.....maybe 1 second (I just tried it)...does
the open source version do that? Bruce, you know I totally respect
your opinion, but this one has me a bit doubtful.
Tim
On Feb 1, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Feb 1, 2006, at 2:17 AM, Steve Peckey wrote:
Here is a nice site full of open source mac software. Aside from
browsers would anyone like to share experiances with any of these
www.opensourcemac.org
HandBrake, Nvu and NeoOffice are great. I've replaced MS office
with NeoOffice on my home machines.
There's a lot of cool stuff there.
A site with TONS of OSS stuff is Sourcforge.org. Its all platforms,
but you can search for projects with OS X ports.
(Also pure Java apps run well on OS X...and there's a lot of those
on Sourceforge.)
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Bruce Johnson
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