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I was talked into buying my daughter a Mac Book. Is there free software similar to a Word program for it?
 
I use NeoOffice on my Mac, it's a well put together version of OpenOffice.
 
...did someone mention open source?!?!


...wow....

:devilgrin:
 
DrEntropy said:
...did someone mention open source?!?!
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Openoffice is pretty OK.

Your freakin' Linux stuff gives me a headache. They had to drag me away from DOS kicking and screaming the whole time, but Linux is just...nevermind :wink:
 
mehheh.

Syntax is EVERYTHING!! :devilgrin:
 
DrEntropy said:
mehheh.

Syntax is EVERYTHING!! :devilgrin:
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But only on tobacco; not beer or wine... :jester:
 
DrEntropy said:
mehheh.

Syntax is EVERYTHING!! :devilgrin:
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Eh... yup. It took me years to get away from dropping to DOS to type dir /w and tons of different "copy" and "xcopy" things. Windows STILL falls way short of what some simple DOS commands offered.

I like some things I see in Ubuntu, but the lack of support for a lot of the devices I need to use (or complications getting them to work) doesn't really make it very attractive. I can see me trying to train some guy that already has trouble finding the "start" button :wink:
 
Gah... understand.

Ubuntu is an "instant gratification" Linux version... Look into Fedora, please.
Well supported and ~somewhat~ conventional.
 
CentOS is even MORE robust.

...just takes more "admin" familiarity.
 
DrEntropy said:
Gah... understand.

Ubuntu is an "instant gratification" Linux version... Look into Fedora, please.
Well supported and ~somewhat~ conventional.
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eh... it aims to please. It does a fair enough job at it too. Since it's based on Debian it's pretty darned bullet proof too.


Had a HDD failure on my ubuntu box this week. Was the drive I had mounted at /home/ftp ... I had another drive mounted at /home/ftp/pub/Media\ Files/ took me a good 20 minutes to figure out why I was getting Input/output errors when I would got to /home/ftp/pub, but going to /home/ftp/pub/Media\ Files/ worked perfectly fine.

a quick fstab edit and a couple of "sudo mkdir" commands later and all was well again :laugh:

Oh yeah... Ubuntu aims for that ease of use target, but it still needs basic admin skills to do anything "fun" :wink:
 
Would you guys speak the Queens English please!
 
Nunyas said:
Was the drive I had mounted at /home/ftp ... I had another drive mounted at /home/ftp/pub/Media\ Files/ took me a good 20 minutes to figure out why I was getting Input/output errors when I would got to /home/ftp/pub, but going to /home/ftp/pub/Media\ Files/ worked perfectly fine.

a quick fstab edit and a couple of "sudo mkdir" commands later and all was well again :laugh:
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That makes me just want to run out and get me a copy.
 
I have to admit though, Ubuntu installed lightning quick - and almost everything was up and working (video/sound/network) without zero interaction from me. That was a real surprise. I googled installing my wireless card and found some 4-year-old instructions that worked perfectly (being a noob the hardest part was finding the stupid "terminal").
 
:lol:

There's that darn'd syntax thingie again. Or more accurately, the "terminology" thingie.
 
Uh... Just a comment: I stuck with Ubuntu for now because it was already up and running (but I let it update to 9.04 yesterday) - the way it and firefox displays everything is absolutely wonderful! :smile:
 
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