RH9 Annoyances

The OpenOffice.org implentation that comes with RH9 has a really ugly 
font problem that cannot be fixed by anyone with less than a PhD in 
operating systemology.  Many users have posted their frustrations with 
this problem, but nobody seems to have any answer.  Yes, yes, I know 
it's not Linux.  That's why it's a Linux annoyance.  It's a typical 
Linux application problem that nobody has an answer to.  Like the bugs 
in pppd: the author in the  source says (in effect),"Don't bug me if you 
have a problem with any of this.  I don't care"

Or how about RH9's calendar dates on the desktop (elsewhere, too, 
probably)?  All you get is day and month.  How about an ANSI YY.MM.DD 
display?  Forget it! RH9 doesn't do ANSI (ANSI's an American standard) 
display stuff.  Probably have to use the German SuSE to get a decent 
date in America.

This stuff is really annoying.

Reilly Burke