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Samwise
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 Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:27 am Post subject: Mac porting website get a new look |
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The Mac porting project has recently redesigned its website; it's not really breaking news, but it's (slightly) better than the old one ...
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.html
Note that some pages still aren't there. |
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LemonAid
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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It's an ... improvement. They have been talking about these changes for some time and it's nice to see it happen. 
It ... "seems" that the number OOo Mac new user question (and #2, #3, and more!  ) is how come OOo does not run / What is this X11 (or worse Mac OS 11?) thingie? Must get tiring answering the same question over and over, and over, and ...over. 
It sounds like they are going to post an note directly on the download page to explain. 
I sure am happy that NeoOffice does not have to deal with the "What is X11 thingie" problems. 
Philip ( I just want to tell ALL the Mac users that NeoOffice 2.0 solves ALL these problems/concerns!  ) |
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ovvldc
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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| LemonAid wrote: | | I sure am happy that NeoOffice does not have to deal with the "What is X11 thingie" problems. |
I saw the biggest newbie ever on the mac@porting list today. He asked if there was a also version for OSX 10... I think this was because he thought X11 was the next version of the Mac OS .
Though I think the people on the list missed that initially...
Best wishes,
Oscar
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LemonAid
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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| ovvldc wrote: | | LemonAid wrote: | | I sure am happy that NeoOffice does not have to deal with the "What is X11 thingie" problems. |
I saw the biggest newbie ever on the mac@porting list today. He asked if there was a also version for OSX 10... I think this was because he thought X11 was the next version of the Mac OS .
Though I think the people on the list missed that initially...
Best wishes,
Oscar |
How true. 
It gets VERY confusing for the new user to understand what to do, or even understand some of the replys. Answering questions can be as big, or bigger, a task as doing some of the coding. Every new user brings their own set of ... problems/concerns.
Philip ( IF the "new user" does not understand, and does NOT use the software - then the software "is not working properly". )
/ Sad, but true. |
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OPENSTEP
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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It also doesn't help that Apple doesn't install X11 by default. I don't think it's available as a separate download any more either as there was a note on Apple's website telling 10.4 users to install off of the DVD.
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MacRat
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| OPENSTEP wrote: | It also doesn't help that Apple doesn't install X11 by default. I don't think it's available as a separate download any more either as there was a note on Apple's website telling 10.4 users to install off of the DVD.
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And from the 3rd CD of 10.3. |
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OPENSTEP
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And from who knows where if you actually got the Tiger CDs through that exchange program...
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MacRat
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| OPENSTEP wrote: | | And from who knows where if you actually got the Tiger CDs through that exchange program... |
X11 is also on the 3rd CD of the Tiger CDs. |
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