Mac Office

[Chaz McGarvey]

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 10:13 AM, Tyler Kelly wrote:

> Yellow Dog is a Linux distribution.  Mac software does not run on 
> Linux.  Yellow Dog does include a program called Mac on Linux (MOL) 
> that supposedly runs the Mac OS (and Mac OS X) simultaneously in a 
> window. MOL is something like Virtual PC.  In fact, I have seem screen 
> shots of it running Virtual PC, so theoretically, I guess you could 
> have Linux, Mac OS, and Windows running in separate windows at the 
> same time.

Also keep in mind that unlike Windows, Mac OS is made to run on the 
same hardware that Yellow Dog is.  This allows MOL to not have to do 
CPU emulation so running Mac OS in a PPC Linux distro will be faster 
than running Windows in a PPC operating system.  I haven't spent a lot 
of time working with MOL, but I can say it works rather well.

That said: As has been suggested, Open Office comes with Yellow Dog and 
it will (I assume) open all your existing Word documents.  You 
shouldn't have a steep learning curve if you already can use Word.  I 
think this is the solution to pursue.

- Chaz