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One Year Of OpenOffice

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-a-burpy-baby-you-have dept.

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*

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  1. Re:CUPS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    638 didn't work with cups, but 638C and other versions did.

  2. OpenOffice needs MacOS X programmers! by sakusha · · Score: 5, Informative

    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!

    1. Re:OpenOffice needs MacOS X programmers! by Phroggy · · Score: 4, Informative

      Agreed. It looks like some of the work has been done, but large chunks have not been ported yet. More information here.

      --
      $x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
      $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
  3. Re:No linux support by big.ears · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.)

  4. Re:Just out of curiosity... by dagnabit · · Score: 3, Informative

    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...