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OpenOffice.org Team Releases Version 1.0
DenialS writes: "Congratulations to the OpenOffice.org team! Version 1.0 of the open office suite has been released. I'm downloading it now; I've had good luck with the previous stable builds. Release notes haven't been posted yet, so I can't say what the major differences are between 1.0 and the previous stable build, 641d, but I'm looking forware to finding out!"
OPENOFFICE.ORG COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES OPENOFFICE.ORG 1.O: FREE OFFICE
PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
Global Community Builds Full-Featured Office Suite With Revolutionary
Momentum
May 1, 2002 - The OpenOffice.org community (www.openoffice.org) today
announced the availability of OpenOffice.org 1.0, the open source,
multi-platform, multi-lingual office productivity suite available as a
free download at the OpenOffice.org community website. OpenOffice.org
1.0 is the culmination of more than 18 months of collaborative effort by
members of the OpenOffice.org community, which is comprised of Sun
employees, volunteer developers, marketers, and end users working to
create an international office suite that will run on all major
platforms.
OpenOffice.org 1.0, which shares the same code base as Sun's StarOffice
[tm] 6.0 software is - like StarOffice 6.0 software - a full-featured
office suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft
Office. OpenOffice.org 1.0 offers software freedom, enabling a free
market for service and support, while the Sun-branded product,
StarOffice 6.0 software, offers 24x7 fee-based support and training for
consumers and businesses, along with deployment and migration services.
StarOffice software also offers additional features, such as a database,
special fonts and Sun quality and assurance testing. The two office
suites complement each other, meeting the varying needs of consumers,
open source advocates and enterprise customers.
"OpenOffice.org 1.0 may be the single best hope for consumers fed-up
with Microsoft's desktop monopoly," said Eric Raymond, co-founder of the
Open Source Initiative (OSI). "With Sun moving to a full service and
support business model for StarOffice software, users around the globe
will continue to have a free office productivity software tool through
the OpenOffice.org open source community."
The OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite features key desktop applications -
including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing
programs - in more than 25 languages. In addition, OpenOffice.org 1.0
works transparently with a variety of file formats, enabling users
familiar with other office suites, such as Microsoft Office and
StarOffice software, to work seamlessly in the application. The
OpenOffice.org 1.0 software runs stably and natively on multiple
platforms, including Linux, PPC Linux, Solaris [tm], Windows and many
other flavors of Unix.
OpenOffice.org is the largest open source project with more than 7.5
million lines of code. To date, more than 4.5 million downloads of
earlier versions of OpenOffice.org 1.0 have taken place. With the
release of the 1.0 version, the OpenOffice.org community expects that
number to grow significantly as businesses and individuals around the
world explore the free alternative to proprietary office suites.
The OpenOffice.org Community
In less than two years, the OpenOffice.org community has grown to more
than 10,000 volunteers, working together to build the leading
international office suite that will run on all major platforms and
provide access to all functionality and data through open-component
based APIs and an XML-based file format. Sun initiated this effort by
donating the StarOffice software source code and engineering to the
OpenOffice.org community. One of the major benefits of community-based
development is peer review, which has resulted in a stable, secure and
flexible software package.
Participants in the Community work on projects ranging from code
development to porting and localization, to bug reporting,
documentation, product marketing, local language sites and mirror
sites for software download.
"There are many important roles that volunteer developers can play to
shape the future functionality of OpenOffice.org (OOo) so if you are
looking for someplace to contribute, OOo can use you," said Kevin
Hendricks, a key contributor to the OpenOffice.org community since its
inception nearly two years ago. Hendricks has lead volunteer development
teams for both the OpenOffice.org 1.0 spellchecker and PPC Linux port
projects.
"When OpenOffice.org was released, it was a tremendous amount of code
with a very deep history, and thus we knew it would take a lot of time
and effort to reach a critical mass of community participation," said
Brian Behlendorf, CTO and co-founder, CollabNet. "The project has now
attracted a significant amount of outside involvement, some of it in
pretty interesting areas like marketing and quality assurance. With the
release of 1.0, it's clear those efforts are bearing real fruit.
Congratulations to the community -- and to Sun -- for making this
happen."
CollabNet's SourceCast application enables both centralized and
geographically distributed software development teams to collaborate on
OpenOffice.org projects and to track them accurately. SourceCast is the
premier Web-based collaboration environment, which includes an
integrated set of software development applications. CollabNet also
provides strategic advice on open source issues and the growth of
OpenOffice.org, and offers analysis on current trends within the
community.
"OpenOffice.org may be the most important open source project right
now," said Miguel de Icaza, founder of the GNOME project. "Because
people will try it and see they can get everyday work done without
giving more money to Microsoft, they'll see -- in a low-risk way -- that
open source software can work for them and be an even better solution."
About OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is the home of the open source project and its community
of developers, users and marketers responsible for the on-going
development of the OpenOffice.org 1.0 product. The mission of
OpenOffice.org is to create, as a community, the leading international
office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to
all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an
XML-based file format. Additional ports, such as FreeBSD, IRIX and Mac
OS X are in various stages of completion by developers and end-users in
the OpenOffice.org community. OpenOffice.org 1.0 is written in C++ and
has documented API's licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
License (LGPL) and Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) open
source licenses.
About CollabNet
CollabNet provides companies with solutions for collaborative software
development by combining a Web-based software application with a suite
of consulting services. Using these solutions, customers can collaborate
on development projects within an enterprise, with customers, business
partners, or with third party developer organizations, such as industry
specific or open source communities. CollabNet enables corporations to
reduce costs and increase revenues by bringing different project team
members together, regardless of their location. CollabNet is currently
working with customers ranging from hardware and software providers to
companies from industries such as financial services, wireless, and
pharmaceuticals. Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Software
Foundation, established CollabNet in July 1999. For more information,
see http://www.collab.net
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer[tm]" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to
its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware,
software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more
than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
© 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, StarOffice, Solaris and "The
Network Is The Computer" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
..some time visiting thier website:
"Q: How was OpenOffice created?
A: It was written entirely in Java."
That is from thier own FAQ, you sould be more careful.
Star/OpenOffice opens office 95 documents.
I sometimes write stuff
download
Screen shots
List of changes
Marketing flyer
From Q&A section:
Q. Is OpenOffice.org 1.0 100% Microsoft Office file compatible?
A. As Microsoft rarely publish their file specifications, no-one can answer that question. However, there are plenty of users who regularly edit and exchange documents, spreadsheets, etc with Microsoft Office users without any problems. Indeed, some users claim they've seen bigger compatibility problems moving between versions of Microsoft's own products.
Q. I've just saved a file from Microsoft Office in OpenOffice.org format, and it's much smaller - yet it hasn't lost anything?
A. Good, isn't it?
Q. Has this suite got that annoying paperclip?
A. No. Never has, never will. No. No!
Testimonials
Timeline
Credits
A working mirror - well, *still* working: planetmirror
if you use a good enough junk-filter, slashdot.org will display a single, *blank*, page
here
and
here
Here's some characters to get past the filter. And some more. And some more.
Check this Google cache of the Open Office Mirrors Project website. Not as convenient as the direct download links from the fontpage, but definitely a start.
Switch back to Slashdot's D1 system.
Yes it can. Check out the timeline in the comment above. This happened last year. It uses it's own printing system AFAIK.
http://www.nedrichards.com
As posted below, there's also a Google cache of the Open Office mirror list. PlanetMirror is painfully slow, at least for me.
Switch back to Slashdot's D1 system.
Google has a list of mirrors for OpenOffice:u ters/Software / ffice_Suites/OpenOffice.org/Mirrors/
http://directory.google.com/Top/Comp
Enjoy!
Does any one know of a way to convert office 95 files into something that could be used by either star office or open office.
Have you tried just opening them?
does any one know of anything which would fit my requirments ? I looked at open office before and I do not think it does
In what way does it not?
Yes, it prints. I think it just uses printcap, so in cupsd.conf put this line:
/etc/printcap
/etc/printcap doesn't match the printers you have through your CUPS server. (Different versions of CUPS shipped with different defaults, IIRC.)
Printcap
if your
Log in on Terminal Server, and let the 'quickstart' come up (the butterfly by the clock).
Log in ANOTHER Session (with the first one still up), and you will not be able to start OpenOffice in that session. Every OO componant you start will appear in the first session. Not being very useful if you left a session open at work, and are logging in at home.
But hey, it's free, and it works!! So I'll just kill the first session, because I'm administrator. :) (but that should be verified because end-users wouldn't be able to do anything about it.)
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
google directory of mirrors. theres defianatly some that work there.
http://www.nedrichards.com
See this list of mirrors. It's the google cache of the original list of mirrors. I'm downloading from the Dutch mirror at the moment.F ah_clJsC: whiteboard.openoffice.org/mirrors/+&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Vzn
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:W15GmmXoe7sC: whiteboard.openoffice.org/mirrors/+&hl=en
Or just click here.
Call it karma whoring if you like, I just think that the more people that use the mirrors and get this great Office app the better.
.haeger
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. -- Harlan Ellison
working link.
This is my impressions of 1.0 so far:
:) (Actually an Access replacement would be nice...)
It renders my old MS Word 2000 files correctly, even with some pretty advanced tables and stuff. I'd say the import filters are certainly good enough for 95% of all users out there.
Load time (measured with clock in hand): 5 seconds (without the program preload and that tray stuff), on my Thunderbird 800Mhz, 256MB machine. It still wants a lot of memory, but otherwise it's in a completely different class than the old Star Offices, performance wise.
It's free, it's good, it has a quality spell checker, what more could I possibly want?
GNOME 2.0, KDE 3.0, Mozilla 1.0, Open Office 1.0 (or SO 6.0), it's all coming together nicely IMO. And you can't beat the price.
Until recently, I had been running Win2k on my Toshiba laptop due to a need for good presentation software (heck, when you work for the US Air Force, it is either Powerpoint or you don't do your job...). Well, the need to do some web/sql development pushed me to put Source Mage Linux on the ol' workhorse. Needless to say, I needed some presenation software.
Enter OpenOffice. I had looked at Koffice, but I didn't want to run a full blown desktop environment (currently, I am running X 4.2 with E) and the dependencies to get Koffice up were huge. I had read about OpenOffice and was pretty pumped that would be the solution. I had no idea.
As I said above, Powerpoint was my main concern, but to a lesser extent, Excel since I import a lot of spreadsheet activity into my presentation. So, I get OpenOffice installed and I pull out my last ppt file from a recent meeting and go to work. First thing I noticed is that it takes OpenOffice a while to start. I am not quite sure what to contribute this to, as my system is a Celery 650 with 192 meg of ram. Once it has been loaded, though, it appears to be cached since it starts very fast there after. Next, it loaded my Powerpoint file, something from Powerpoint 2000. It takes a little while, something that doesn't really surprise me since I have quite a few Excel tables imbedded in the show. After about 25 seconds, it is up.
The first thing I notice about the presentation is that it looks great! In presentation mode, the slides are clear and the text is even anti-aliased. Doing a side by side comparison with my XP machine, I was actually more impressed by the Impress display. Great job there. Next, I went to one of the many Excel objects and double clicked it. Boom, it loaded the Calc object in the presentation and I was able to edit the spreadsheet like Powerpoint/Excel. Too damn impressive.
What else do I like.... hmmmmm:
- I like the fact that what ever OpenOffice app you are in, you can open up any document. Very cool
- My Word documents look as good in OpenOffice. Very nice.
- The desktop thing is gone. Thank God...
- I am sure there is more, but I have just started playing...
If you can, go and help out these people. It is good stuff...Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
Courtesy of good ol' Google:
Sunsite.dk HTTP, Denmark -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Qkaka HTTP, China P.R. -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Utwente HTTP/FTP, Netherlands -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Planet Mirror HTTP, Australia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
VLSM HTTP/FTP, Indonesia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
E4A HTTP, Italy -
English and italian binaries.
Edumail HTTP, Belgium -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Giganet HTTP, Hungary -
Mirror with sources, binaries.
GD TU Wien HTTP/FTP, Austria -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Stud FHT-Esslingen FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
3Way FTP, Hong Kong, China P.R. -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
RWTH-Aachen FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).
PWR Wroc FTP, Poland -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Sunsite Cnlab-Switch FTP, Switzerland -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).
CHG FTP, Russia -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Mirror AC HTTP, United Kingdom -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Unam FTP, Mexico -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files.
Stardiv FTP, Germany -
Complete mirror with sources, binaries and contrib files (german, french, english).
Thanks OpenOffice team!
There isn't yet an OSX port. They're working on porting it at the moment. If you can develop on OSX then please give them a hand. It will rock.
Note that there is a PPC Linux build available at the Yellow Dog Linux site.
http://www.nedrichards.com
Install file, the solver is a collection of prebuilt object files and similiar development stuff to speed up development, not required (or desirable) for casual user install.
I sometimes write stuff
Yes! Besides the fact that OpenOffice will open MS files, there is an excellent AUTOPILOT function which will batch process all of them and turn them into StarOffice/OpenOffice files. I transferred about 400 old MS Office documents this way in a matter of minutes -- and the documents stayed perfectly formatted. Check it out.
easier.
Have the installation program ask you what you want as your default save formats.
if you do not mix with Ofice folk, then you can use OO files, if oyu do, then you can use MS files.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
Since apparently the porting process was halted by a deficiency in the Apple version of gcc 2.95, this may take quite a while yet.
I tried compiling gcc 3.0.4 the other day, and it doesn't. All in all, a large amount of patience is appropriate for Mac platforms.
--
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen "...and...Tubular Bells!"
http://www.lusis.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=N ews&file=article&sid=44
Here's hoping slashdot doesn't fuck up the link.
If you're running a linux workstation, it's even easier but if you happen to have a linux firewall or just one on your network, it'll get the job done.
"Fighting the underpants gnomes since 1998!" "Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat"
check out http://www.pdf995.com.
This is a free pdf file producer.
read the docs, requires the Apple Laser II NT printer driver.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
For some odd reason, in earlier versions we never really had full control over our default margins. One thing that may help a bit is .../spadmin. This will allow you to change your default paper. For some reason it is set to A4 instead of US Letter. I don't live in the US, but still. In the previous stable version, you can now finally have equal margins all the way around.
I don't know what version 1.0 is like. I hope that what I said helps you guys.
testing out my trending skills
Oops, sorry, there appear to be some broken links on that last mirror list, should've checked them all I guess.g es/OpenOffice/ (de, fr)p enoffice.org/ (de, fr)n esia FTP ftp://sapi.vlsm.org/openoffice/win32split/c e.org/
Here's what looks like a more authoritative list, from Google's cache of the 641d build page:
Australia FTP/HTTP - http://planetmirror.com/pub/openoffice/
Austria HTTP - http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/office/openoffice/ (de, fr)
Austria FTP - ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/office/openoffice/ (de, fr)
Belgium FTP - ftp://openoffice.vosberg.be (de, nl)
Belgium HTTP http://www.edumail.be/index.php/static/openoffice (de, nl)
China P.R. HTTP http://office.qkaka.com/ (All listed localizations)
Denmark HTTP http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/openoffice/(da)
Denmark FTP ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/openoffice/ (da)
Finland HTTP http://www.kongogroup.com/openoffice/oo.asp (fi-only?)
Germany FTP ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openoffice/ (de)
Germany HTTP http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openoffice/ (de)
Germany FTP ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packa
Germany FTP ftp://openoffice.tu-bs.de/OpenOffice.org/641c/ (de, fr)
Germany FTP ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.o
Germany FTP ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/OpenOffice.org/ (de, fr, es, sv, pt, zh-cn, zh-tw)
Hungary FTP/HTTP http://office.fsf.hu/letoltes.html (hu)
Iceland FTP ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/OpenOffice
Iceland HTTP http://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/OpenOffice
Indonesia HTTP http://sapi.vlsm.org/openoffice/win32split/
Indo
Italy FTP/HTTP http://openoffice.e4a.it/ (it)
Mexico FTP ftp://mirrors.unam.mx/pub/OpenOffice/
Netherlands FTP ftp://borft.student.utwente.nl (nl)
Netherlands HTTP http://borft.student.utwente.nl/openoffice/ (nl)
Netherlands HTTP http://niihau.student.utwente.nl/openoffice/ (nl)
Poland FTP ftp://ftp.openoffice.pl/ (pl; NOTE: please use an FTP client program if your browser doesn't download the files)
Spain FTP ftp://ftp.cyberfenix.net/pub/openoffice(ca, es)
Spain HTTP http://ftp.cyberfenix.net (ca, es)
Spain HTTP http://ftp.rediris.es/ftp/mirror/openoffice.org/ (ca, es)
Spain FTP ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/openoffice.org (ca, es)
Sweden FTP http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Office/OpenOffice.org/ (sv)
Switzerland FTP ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/OpenOffice/ (de, fr)
U.K. HTTP http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ny1.mirror.openoffi
U.S.A. FTP ftp://ftp.mn-linux.org/linux/openoffice(Linux only)
I believe the problem so far is lack of volunteers for a MacOS X port. Sun and the OpenOffice groups both were pleading for developers a few months back, and near as I can tell there were few to no responses.
This may be a case where we want to just use the Linux port as a basis and use an X11 front-end, the way many are doing so for GIMP.
Course, we need a lot more coders before we make that happen.
Apple has already released a beta of their new developer tools, which includes gcc3.1. Maybe it's time to try compiling again, against the 1.0 branch? =)
There are I believe paid Sun hackers still working as the core team of the project and there are also Boeing (as in big things with wings) hackers whose programming time for the project has been donated by the company. There are I believe a large number of volunteer hackers working on the project but they are all gaining marketable skills, CV entries and maybe just having fun. Everyone gains (including Sun in its object of reducing M$ control on the desktop). As an oo user I would like to thank all who contributed to its development.
Since I had trouble getting them after downloading, here they are:
OpenOffice.org MD5sums
2002-04-30
24b64e79509f4e6b4e458fe35f82c762 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
4e64260ed39c81e895551364e25d3258 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_LinuxIntel_solver.tar.gz
f29b608ebc5512401f3c315475f4593c 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_Win32Intel_install.zip
67bf15ac86aaf3a09e334661d4cbe49e 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_SolarisSparc_install.tar.gz
f5dbcf74a3b025280a2afd3e5913da16 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_source.tar.bz2
e40dfc192a7b963ea998619425316057 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_source.tar.gz
6e96524d13a76e612715ab95f9607b68 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_SolarisSparc_solver.tar.gz
a1b2339eeb66f0cacdbf878464c05628 1.0.0/OOo_1.0.0_Win32Intel_solver.zip
Yes it does, it even supports the KDE print system if you're creative...
I've created a printer who's print command is "kprinter" (if memory serves). Whenever I hit "print" it pops up the nice KDE print dialog with all of the neat features it offers.
Best regards,
David
actually, i guess it is:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac
os x makes a distinction between a shared library and a loadable module ( "plugin" ). It's quite a different platform to target. the open office team would love people familiar with it to help out.
read the macslash discussion on this topic here
SOT Office is merely a slightly older version of OpenOffice.org. I'm sure that the source updates will be included in the Bundles Of Helpful Fixes soon.
Get SOT if you want commercial support otherwise OOo will always be more up to date.
http://www.nedrichards.com
Maybe, maybe not. I had no problems with 641D, but with 1.0, OpenOffice is NOT rendering my TTF fonts in anti-aliasing (or most anyway...clearly something ain't right).
./spadmin, then click on fonts and point it to your windows/fonts directory. Hope you have better luck than me.
But for those who want to try...in console, in the OpenOffice directory, run
Yes. If you are us9ing linux, check out the install guide that is linked to on the download page. It shows you how to install is (easy) and then shows you what to do to setup your printer.
so far it has been printing great. I even used it tp type up a 10 page report yesterday for school, and I was very impressed.
Moon Macrosystems. Sun's biggest competitor.
When you do so it will ask you for the original Office 97 CD (which must be exactly the same version). Since you have touched the original CD, don't forget to reinstall all Office and operating system service packs in the correct order when you are done.
Now the fun part is figuring out how to rerun Setup if you didn't install the Office tool bar, since the tool bar is the only organic location to start Setup, and you need to run Setup to install the tool bar :-).
sPh
You are aware that Excel is notorious for innaccurate calculations right? Some of the functions using the built in math libraries return answers that are wrong. And if you use VB scripting, which uses different libraries, the problem gets compounded to answers that are really wrong. See bugnet for some examples. If you insist on using Excel, use a third party (and adequately tested) math library with it for serious precision math.
Actually, I believe that the "biggie" is that SO comes with a full-featured desktop database package.
Engineering and the Ultimate
Wellllp
;)
./install from install ./setup from install after dat
:( (did it make one on KDE or Gnome?? I don't know why would i use those???)
I run mdk8.1 just installed it fine
not exactly intuitive though
tar -xvvzf'd the tar'ball,
decompressed into a directory named 'install'
(stupid name, not very original)
run
run
setup gives a real nice gui (complete with special effects even_) but never told me what to run after installing the thing.
the actual binaries get put in user's homedir, a directory called 'OpenOffice.org1.0' by default ugly again. and it's not been entered in my path.
the executable i ran was called 'soffice' (hmm whered they get that name?)
oh yeah and it didn't put a menu-entry on my Blackbox or Enlightenment menus
but hey thats a standard linux package for ya.... I like it even...
The Tektronix Phaser 300i driver for Windows produces nice Postscript output that, when converted using Ghostscript, produces very small PDFs. Using it, I turned a 1800kB Word document (with many diagrams) to a 144kB PDF.
Start-Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs - MS Office97
This doesn't directly uninstall Office, but runs the Setup tool.
Obvious, isn't it
They are very nice. Frankly, they're much better than the Windows versions.
But they also cost $460. That's a pretty steep price for someone who may just want a general suite.
Even AppleWorks (which is very funtional) costs $129.
* As is generally the case, my opinions do not reflect those of my employer.
Actually, Appleworks is cross platform. Check it out here:
l ew orks/
http://www.apple.com/education/k12/products/app
I have a max upstream speed of 384Kbps, so don't expect this to be too fast. And if you do download from this site, thanks for testing out my server for me ;-)
cd ./install ./setup -net
Choose folder /opt/office to install
log in a normal user /opt/office/setup
not choose a folder like ~/openoffice and boom.
Someone said installation doesnt work?
Never learn by your mistakes, if you do you may never dare to try again
The install script seems to have gotten added between 641d and 1.0 in the linux version....
And it's got an incredibly high big density. It must have been tricky fitting that many bugs into such a small script.
I was glad to see that the install script did a network install by default. With 641d, you just had to be in the know - the -net flag wasn't documented anywhere I could find, but if you didn't use it, you couldn't install on linux (requiring each user to install a personal copy of the whole thing practically counts as not being able to install). But back to 1.0.
If you just run the install script with no options, it actually does a more-or-less reasonable install, aparently more by accident than design - multiple bugs manage to cancel each other out.
The script has a strange attempt to override the default installation path on the strange theory that if you failed to specify the path, that must have been an accident, so you must really want it somewhere different; luckily the script fails to do the override correctly, so the default remains in effect.
You also get a bunch of error messages about symlinks failing because the script used the wrong shell variable in trying to set the symlinks. But since the program can't be run via a symlink anyway, it is probably good that this failed.
Once you have completed the shared install as root, you are in for another collection of bugs new to 1.0 during the user install. You'll get about a dozen errors from a script error in attempting to make symlinks in your gnome and kde setups. Looks like misguided attempts to use
blanks in file names (but not managing to quote them as needed to get such names through a shell).
In the end it worked, but what a sucky collection of install bugs, all new between 641d and 1.0
Thank you, Anonymous. Good tip.
.rtf and even (this stunned me) plain .txt files.
.sxw format. But, having read your post, I just went off and checked AUTOPILOT. Cool! A couple of minutes later a twenty-two file 2.04 MB folder only weighs 516 KB.
Only last night I was amazed to find that OpenOffice's files are not only smaller that MSWord's, they're smaller than rich text
So I began laboriously saving years of old MSWord verbiage into OpenOffice's space-saving
And they Save As back into MSWord just fine. The only functionality I lost was that I could no longer use the Table of Contents to jump to the entry. But simply reinserting the ToC in Word took five seconds. I'm impressed.
Thanks again, Anonymous. And thank you OpenOffice!