Hi :) I think it is fairly easy to get a Virtual Machine onto Mac and then install some Gnu&Linux in as default a configuration as you have time for, just to run the odd 1 or 2 apps. If you want an extremely light-weight, minimalist Gnu&Linux then SliTaz is good and is designed in French rather than English (although it's possible to change to quite a few different languages).
Also there is Wine for running Windows apps almost as though they are native apps. Since Mac and Gnu&Linux don't hog resources so much surely those sorts of options are more viable than they are on Windows. I'm not sure that really helps but i hope it might. Also i'm fairly sure Alex has already tried things like that. Regards from Tom :) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted