Openoffice update.

[Andres Tello Abrego]

I know that Derick... is that I´m very happy with my Ibook g3, and 
yellodog. I only need openoffice 2.0, and I haven't found a copy for ppc.

I tried to build openoffice, but I ran out of space, and I wasn´t able 
to work on anything else while building openoffice, my processor 
workload was over 15-19... And there area  alot of dependecy and source 
code to download to all the right things to build it.


So, for what you say about linux & x86, I suppose Terrasoft will no 
longer support mac laptops?

As you pointed, I was hoping somebody provides a clean ppc machine to 
build the new openoffice 2.0 for ppc :) but... No luck.

And yes, is a pity about the ppc laptops...


P.D. you don´t need to be a corporation or research center, I can also 
work with your G4 laptop :)

Derick Centeno wrote:
> Andres,
> 
> If you visit open office.org you'll see that open office itself, because 
> it is open source, is free!  You only pay for it if you purchase CDs 
> from them!
> Open Office is provided free as part of YDL together with hundreds of 
> other packages, you can't make the pitch you are attempting because it 
> is just easy to get for one's self.  Or perhaps nearly everyone else can 
> get it, except you -- for some reason.  You've my sympathy, and what 
> assistance I've provided here, but that is it.  I don't run a 
> corporation, a research center or anything of that sort to even consider 
> assisting you as you've asked.
> 
> Considering that Apple has abandoned the PPC market it appears that the 
> last laptop with a PPC in it will be the Powerbook G4.  It runs YDL 4.1 
> rather nicely, however I received this G4 as a gift.  Depending on where 
> you are the Powerbook G4 may not even be available anymore. 
> 
> I have no way of knowing if any company will produce a PowerPC laptop in 
> the future.  A realistic view of the current market is that there may 
> not be a PowerPC laptop ever again, which means that your next laptop 
> will be the vanilla variety from Intel and it's knockoffs.  And that 
> means, if you stick with Linux, it will be a Linux running on an Intel, 
> which is not this list.
> 
> Sadly, that's a probability coming closer to becoming the reality every day.
> 
> Best wishes.....
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