I’m downloading the public beta 3 of the X11 system for Apple OS X 10.2. An operating version of OpenOffice.org has finally been released for the Mac, but it requires X11. Apparently the new OS X 10.3 is going to have the final version, not just the public beta, of X11 included. Wonder if it’ll work on my old-school Indigo iMac.

Ahh, the lengths I go to for a free office suite.

If 10.3 will work on old-school systems, I’m going to have to fulfill my dream of picking up a used iBook (one of the dual-colored ones), crank up the hard drive and RAM, and use it exclusively for writing. MU HA HA! Now, if only iChat would support plugins and tabbed window chatting like gAIM does. Oh, and if only X11 would support something like wine so I could run Grapevine on my Mac. That would be schweet.

“If only” will become “I did it!”. It will.