From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 02:58:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEAA816A4E0 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 02:58:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6500343D45 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 02:58:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so2099065wxd for ; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:58:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AfTYS/lYsSYMCyqz8/mo424yUyjLquPnelzfAGDhokzNVD3ungfHNvy/XZxxLnYWU28mgp6tKTxwyw2LUFYI1N7qQgECvkSli5WQRBPSw1yRcHPFAnZgMI2AyddjHF7FMgcIBvrwCPMJvGI63mrFJ213ZwFfl226hzEpALeQTnU= Received: by 10.70.111.2 with SMTP id j2mr8913005wxc; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:58:09 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Perry Hutchison" In-Reply-To: <10609042341.AA20281@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <10609040708.AA17675@pluto.rain.com> <10609042341.AA20281@pluto.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Word processor for 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:58:10 -0000 On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > > Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? > > > AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. > ... > > KOffice 1.5 has OpenDocument support. > > Not that I'm any more eager to get into > a KDE mess than a Gnome mess :) > > File format support is not important. > I just need something for my 9th-grader > to use for school papers. > FreeBSD and Linux will not meet your teenagers needs, If you really want to introduce your kid to UNIX then buy a Mac... trust me on this... I interact with many high school and college kids on a daily basis. Any used Mac capable of running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and NeoOffice2 will suit your childs needs perfectly: PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor. Built-in FireWire. 384 MB of memory. 5 GB of disk space. http://www.lowendmac.com/ http://computers.attr-search.ebay.com/Gigabit_Apple-Desktops_PowerPC-G4_W0QQa10244ZQ2d24QQa12ZQ2d24QQa25710ZQ2d24QQa26092ZQ2d24QQa26443Z42211QQa26444ZQ2d24QQalistZa26092Q2ca26443Q2ca26444Q2ca25710Q2ca12Q2ca10244QQcatrefZC6QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfposZQ5AIPQ2fPostalQQfromZR10QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQftsZ2QQgcsZ1506QQpfZShowQ20ItemsQQpf_queryZGigabitQQpfidZ1812QQpfmodeZ1QQsacatZ25440QQsadisZ200QQsargnZQ2d1QQsaslcZ2QQsbrftogZ1QQsofocusZpf