[G4] Open Office/Neo Office

Steven Six six.steven at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 07:04:44 PDT 2009


That's right. I ran OpenOffice on a G3 iBook with 10.4, and I remember  
that every time I opened it, X11 would open first. I liked OpenOffice,  
by the way, and when I finally got MS Office I missed it. It was a  
little more user friendly, and still seemed to do eveything the MS  
package did.

Steven

On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Mike Bechtold <wmb1204 at fuse.net> wrote:

> When I installed these on my G4 DA with 10.4.11, I had to install X11
> first; OOo is really Linux based, and required that graphic subsystem.
> Unfortunately, I don't remember how I did it, but I think that it's
> available on the OSX 10.4 install disk.
>
> If that doesn't work, Iwork disks are readily available on the LEMSwap
> forum or eBay. I think that I paid $50 for Iwork 08, and it generally
> works fine. My only complaint is that I'm a math teacher, and Iwork 08
> won't support enough math symbols. The 09 version supports MathType,  
> and
> is much better for this function for that reason.
>
> - Michael B. in Cincinnati
>
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