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November 24th, 2003, 01:36 PM
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| GIMP and OpenOffice GIMP is fun... but I'm used to Photoshop, interface and I still use it in an old Classic version. OpenOffice is also quite good, but here I have an MS Office license and I tend to use it for normal work. What is missing for me to use GIMP and OpenOffice as a regular basis ? A better integration in Panther.
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November 24th, 2003, 03:31 PM
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| I had installed OpenOffice on my clamshell, but it didn't make the migration to the new iBook. My problem was with clipboard compatibility. Did they solve that yet? |
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November 29th, 2003, 10:17 PM
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| Unix is Unix is Unix - - - but there's a catch! Voice, Wolf Linux won't work because it's an X86 binary executable, that is, a program created specifically to run on a Pentium/AMD processor. The Mac's PowerPC uses different instructions and won't run Intel programs. It's just like when novice users will ask you if you can run Windows programs on your Mac. Impossible. Well, of course there's VirtualPC, but all that translation adds up to a huge speed hit. "Open-source" Unix/Linux programs can rather easily be converted to different processors by sending the source code (what the programmer typed) through a compiler program. Obviously, Wolf is not open-source. They would have to recompile Linux Wolf to run on the PowerPC. Doug
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November 30th, 2003, 02:05 PM
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| When I get 'round to installing any X11 Apps, they would have to be Gnumeric, GIMP and maybe Dia and Sodipodi. I'd still be hesitant about using X11 apps, though... they distrupt the Chi of my User Experience  . They just don't belong there... I'm fussy like that, I'm pretty much a Cocoa Facist, I don't even like using Carbon Apps. |
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January 19th, 2004, 05:25 PM
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| OpenOffice and GIMP are what I use most with X11. I also have M$ Office v.X (stop throwing rocks at me), so I don't really need OpenOffice. M$ office was $20 at the university I attended; it was cheap, so I bought it. I would like to know how OpenOffice does linear regression in its spreadsheets. M$ "cheats" on some linear algebra calculations to speed things up, so it isn't as accurate and contains round-off error. This is why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration FORBIDS its use in pharmaceutical calculations. |
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February 9th, 2004, 11:13 PM
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| Pan, gFtp, gimp, nessus, nmap, ettercap, GKrellM
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February 12th, 2004, 08:17 PM
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| i have a linux program running somehow called aMSN, and i can use display pics on it like in the windows MSN  i had to install Fink, X11, TCL/TK, TLS, and finally the aMSN program. It took me like 2 days, and now i kno how to use X11 
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