From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 17:51:23 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 D05E516A4E2 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:51:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7513B43D70 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:51:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so2338640wxd for ; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:51:21 -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=TGZ5TUsb4pyPO/OhfnTCeRc4RKBhkYEfGBqECu0KXHghpgRdEuoiN2gVXovwFY61ia1EibzZdhPjsOn5nO8udtimxkyvUvVDGJNnHG8H0iq5rueZWuYfDjSDVcxqcDq9lYrxMYF2KEVGjYDSaVPvtHHrF8DdMCSOMhsOAzv3tno= Received: by 10.70.87.9 with SMTP id k9mr10306518wxb; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:51:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 12:51:21 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Jerold McAllister" In-Reply-To: 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: Perry Hutchison , 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 17:51:23 -0000 On 9/5/06, Jerold McAllister wrote: > Nikolas Britton writes: > > > 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: > > Please be more careful about advice you give that is really opinion. > You completely missed the point, you of all people should know exactly what I'm talking about: http://acns.msu.edu/organization/academic/information_systems/ So close to the kids and yet completely out of touch with their needs. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/