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StarOffice Source Released

Posted by michael on from the friday-the-13th dept.

mprudhom writes: "According to Yahoo!, Sun has today released the source to StarOffice, as promised. Go to www.openoffice.org and download it, or just grab it with:
cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.openoffice.org:/cvs login
cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.openoffice.org:/cvs co OpenOffice ". Okay, people can stop submitting this now.

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  1. Figures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5
    I was in the middle of downloading the source code, when things went to hell and the download stopped cold. I couldn't get a response from the server, so I figured I'd take a minute to see what's up at /., and what do I find, but this article.

    *Sigh*

  2. Good for Emacs! by kalifa · · Score: 5

    > OpenOffice 6.05 takes a good 18 hours to compile
    > on a 500Mhz win32 box, according to
    > openoffice.org. Yikes :)

    Yup. Thanks to the joint efforts of OpenOffice, Mozilla, and a few others, Emacs officially entered the category of lightweight utilities.

  3. Use compression when downloading... by HadronPie · · Score: 5
    cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.openoffice.org:/cvs login
    cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.openoffice.org:/cvs co OpenOffice

    Note the -z3

    This will save a little on bandwidth...

  4. 6.05 First Impressions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    I got ahold of the Linux binary and had to try it. The good news: the download is quite a lot smaller (52.4MB, vs. something like 80.8MB for version 5.2). Evidently the web browser and mail features were taking up a lot of space. The memory footprint is also smaller: about 40MB, 30MB shared after opening several Word docs, an Excel spreadsheet, and a PowerPoint file. That horrible desktop is GONE. Separate documents open in separate windows which you can move around like they're supposed to. Maybe it's my imagination, but it seems a bit faster. Whatever toolkit-within-a-toolkit wrapper it's using still accounts for a lot of fat though. I opened a Word document that failed with 5.2, and it looks pretty damn good. Excel also. PowerPoint rendered the presentation acceptably, though the headlines were consistently kerned all bunched up together. Conclusion: didn't play with it long enough to see how much it crashes, but this seems to be headed in the right direction. A GTK version will be a killer app.