OSNews > Thread > "RE[3]: Don't block the others , shut up on the subject" by zegenie

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th Apr 2008 18:54 UTC

Back in September 2003, when Red Hat discontinued its home-oriented Red Hat Linux desktop and offloaded that market to the community-driven but Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project, many people were left wondering if Red Hat would ever again offer a product aimed at home desktops. We have the answer now.

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RE[3]: Don't block the others , shut up on the subject

by zegenie on Thu 17th Apr 2008 22:46 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Don't block the others , shut up on the subject"

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2005-12-31

"iWork doesn't even have anything like OLE embedding."
And that's a bad thing ... ?

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RE[4]: Don't block the others , shut up on the subject

by arielb on Thu 17th Apr 2008 23:59 in reply to "RE[3]: Don't block the others , shut up on the subject"

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2006-11-15

yes that means iwork apps aren't even compatible with themselves. You can't embed a Numbers spreadsheet into a Pages document like you can with Excel and Word.
There is a solution for other mac apps but not Apple's for some reason. See

http://linkback.nisus.com

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RE[5]: Don't block the others , shut up on the subject

by zegenie on Fri 18th Apr 2008 05:36 in reply to "RE[4]: Don't block the others , shut up on the subject"

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2005-12-31

Back in the Be days, *it* didn't have OLE embedding (or whatever you call it), either, but you could still embed a spreadsheet inside a text document, and vice verca. There are plenty of other ways to do it.

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