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OpenOffice Beta for Jaguar/X11 Released

Posted by pudge on from the everyone-please-wait-until-i-finish-downloading-it dept.

kaldari writes "After great work by the development contributors and astounding help from the new testing team, the X11 build is now stable enough for beta testing to begin! This build can run both on DarwinPPC 6.0 and higher and also Mac OS X 10.2 and higher with help from other open source projects. For more info, check out the OpenOffice site."

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  1. Well, um . . that's great and all . . . by DrHogie · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but how about a version of OpenOffice that runs in OSX natively? I.e. WITHOUT X11?

    I've seen that there is a alpha w/ Aqua support, but I have yet to see a download for it -- is it anywhere?

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    --DrH, the Sandwich with the Ph.D.
    1. Re:Well, um . . that's great and all . . . by 90XDoubleSide · · Score: 5, Informative

      Their roadmap is to first get a version that works fine on OS X using X11 for windowing, then to make a version that draws everything manually in quartz and still looks like the X11 version, but it runs without X11, and then finally to make a version that uses aqua widgets. They plan to be done with this by summer 2004, so don't go trashing your copy of office just yet ;) http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/timeline.html

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      "Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity" -Alvy Ray Smith
    2. Re:Well, um . . that's great and all . . . by jeblucas · · Score: 3, Informative

      No guarantees, I haven't even tried this, and /. may kill it, but try here. Google cached it here.

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      blarg.
    3. Re:Well, um . . that's great and all . . . by mr100percent · · Score: 3, Informative
      Try NeoOffice.

  2. Re:Somewhat of a troll, but... by kwerle · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know the point is not looks, it is to get work done. But my god, are you guys *trying* to make it have the ugliest most combersome interface possible? If so, mission accomplished.

    Well, it is trying to compete with Office, so you're probably not far off the mark :-)

  3. What is "average"? by Outland+Traveller · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It may very well be that the "average" Mac user is changing. Ever since OS X, I and other *nix folk have been enthusiasticly adopting the platform alongside our usual assortment of Linux/BSDs workstations. No GUI on the market can currently match OS X. The system is an absolute dream to work on, and for my budget the 14" ibook is the laptop of choice.

    From this point of view, it is a great thing that I can now use OpenOffice.org on all my platforms!