Developers make X11 for OS X announcements
updated 09:55 am EST, Wed January 8, 2003
On the heels of Apple's quiet for Mac OS X and Darwin. The open-source office suite features writing, drawing, spreadsheet, and presentation modules as well as read/write compatibility with MS Office documents and a native XML file format. The release offers improved printing support, PDF document generation, full international keyboard support, and improved font support. The final release is expected in the Spring of 2003.
OpenOSX also announced complete product compatibility with Apple's new X11 application, bringing full Quartz graphic acceleration to its product line: OpenOSX Gimp, OpenOSX Grass GIS, OpenOSX Office and OpenOSX FilmGimp. It says that users "will benefit in dramatic performance and aesthetic improvements when using Apple's X11 application in place of OroborOSX and/or XDarwin."
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Joined: Jul 2001
Open Sore software
Oh boy. Great. Whoopee. Once again, Open Source is supposed to ride in to my rescue.
Install the X11 beta.
Install the OpenOffice.org1.0.1 final beta.
Note the advisory that says "can't find X11Darwin...you may need to start OpenOffice.org manually".
Double click the "Start OpenOffice.org" app.
Choose your X11.app you installed earler as your "preferred X window server".
NOTHING HAPPENS.
Try following their instructions for starting OpenOffice.org from a terminal command line. when you get to the part where you type a 83948573 character long command, the terminal responds back with your 83948573 character long command and "no match".
I am getting SO DAMN SICK of open sore software I can just spit. I fought it out with LinuxPPC for years, and here we go again. Why in the h*** do the X11 announcement and links and the OpenOffice.org final beta announcement and links appear together when they don't flippin' work? Open Source software is rapidly reminding me of one long time old bit of wisdom; "you get what you pay for".
Disgusted,
WM