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One Year Of OpenOffice
no parity writes "Last year on October 13, much of the source to Sun's StarOffice was released as the OpenOffice project. They have set up a birthday page to celebrate what they have achieved in that one year - yes, it prints, spellchecks and has online help. Keep up the good work, guys!" Yep - and my installation still spits up, too. *grin*
638 didn't work with cups, but 638C and other versions did.
Since StarOffice dropped official support for MacOS X, OpenOffice needs more MacOS X programmers. Microsoft is going to make a huge marketing push for Office X, but if we had working OpenOffice versions, their monopolistic push could be thwarted. But it's too late for now. We need help!
$ less TextDoc.txt
It isn't perfect, but it works well enough for the rare occasions somebody sends me a .doc attachment (or I get one from Sircam :-).
Loneliness is a power that we possess to give or take away forever
others probably do too, but i know that lyx does.
I have to say OpenOffice despite all its greatness has introduced a very annoying new behavior that can't be turned off. It uses extended windows style quotes/etc even when authoring on linux in html. I use Open/Star office, but there is a lack of attention to detail in certain areas that kind of annoys me. That being said, I never am tempted to go back to M$.
Yes it does, Insert->Indexes->Indexes
Umm, hate to mess with your "sorry, reality bites" attempts, but AFAIK Sun does use StarOffice internally (and has used it before they even bought Star Division, see here). I don't think they have ever used MS Office, so calculating how much they have saved might be a bit difficult.
Don't you hate it when you embarrass yourself and all someone can say is RTFM? I'm doing this from memory, so I might be wrong about a few details. You have to do a "network" installation: as root, execute the downloaded binary with -net option (...or was it \net) and put it, e.g., in /usr/local/staroffice. Then, as a user, run /usr/local/staroffice/soffice and it will do a user installation (it uses about a megabyte or so.)
I work for Sun in the Cobalt Server Appliances group. I personally run StarOffice on my RH7.1 laptop for doing presentations for customers, etc. It is not _mandatory_ for Sun employees to use StarOffice, but most do. It's the only suite that Sun's internal IT group supports. So people who choose M$ Office are on their own for support. Also, Netscape is Sun's "official" browser and email program. If you read your mail with Outlook, etc, you're on your own too...