Dear x11

[soclosesofar]

and for that matter open office.

Your both crap programs. Your crash. Often. If I wanted that shit I'd use a PC.

Thanks,

The Management

Comments

[morimur]

That's odd. I use Open Office on my work machine and I put it through some serious tasks but it has never crashed on me (but then, I am running it on a PC).

[soclosesofar]

That's right. Because it runs FINE on a PC (one of the few things that do). I'm using OO Aqua which is still in Beta. You have the choice of the Aqua or the X11 version which is just gawd awful. GIMP is the same thing. Love the program but you have to run it on X11 which means its crashtastic.

[daotoad]

On my antique G4 mini Gimp and Inkscape both work fine under X11. Never had it crash. I'm running 10.4.

I don't use Open Orifice, because I have a copy of MS Orifice.

The last time I tried OOo it was too slowtastic and sucky to live. I didn't use it enough to have it crash.

As a solution to needing the various cool open source proggies that require X11 to work on a mac, you could run linux in a virtualbox - http://www.virtualbox.org/

I use a virtualbox instance for my software development. Some of the shit I use must run on windows, other bits have the same needy relationship with linux. Virtualbox solves the problem nicely.

[beatings]

Wait... I had one version here on Mac OS 10.4, which was awful and crashy. The new one is pretty stable, and doesn't require X11 to run. Which version are you running?

[soclosesofar]

Version 3.
It crashes. Often.
Actually, it just plain freezes and then I have to Force Quit.

FORCE QUIT BRO FORCE QUIT!

[sisyphus238]

Try NeoOffice instead. It doesn't use X11, but I should note that my Mac is fairly new and I'm running the latest version of OSX.

[soclosesofar]

I had Neooffice before and it was great. Far better than OO. I think when I d/led Open office I assumed it was Neooffice. Good suggestion. Downloading now.