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List:       openoffice-discuss
Subject:    Re: [discuss] Openoffice for MacOS 9 and below?
From:       Brian Foddy <brian.foddy () nwa ! com>
Date:       2002-12-05 15:19:07
Message-ID: 3DEF6E6B.5030500 () nwa ! com
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There is always Linux PPC that runs well on those era machines.

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>I would very much like to see a version of Openoffice.org for pre-osx macs.  
>There are a large number of 7300/7500/7600/8500/8600 boxen that will never be 
>upgraded to osx.  #1 is the issue of needing a G3 to run osx.  Many of these 
>boxes have 132-200 mhz 604 chips.  These would easily run openoffice.org with 
>decent speed, but will not run osx.  #2 is the issue of video cards.  OSX 
>doesn't run well on anything less than an ATI Radeon or Nvidia Gforce based 
>card--there goes all of the ATI Rage 128 based macs as well.
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>There are literally millions of powerpc macs that osx is not a realistic 
>option but openoffice.org would be one.  If we could get a good chunk of 
>these users, it would be significant.  I think that many are getting tired of 
>old versions of MS office or Claris Works and are ready to upgrade.
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