StarOffice 7, GNOME-Office 1.0 Released

An anonymous reader writes "Abiword 2.0 has been released. Finally the Linux desktop has a quality word processor that is faster to load than OpenOffice.org and includes proper footnotes. It also no longer uses its own font directory. At the same time Enchant 1.0.0 has been released, a cross-platform abstract layer to spellchecking. Enchant has been proposed to be a Freedesktop.org standard." That's not the only news, though: Abiword 2.0 is part of the just-released GNOME-Office 1.0, which, as riggwelter writes "coordinates GNOME2 versions of AbiWord, Gnumeric, and GNOME-DB, the database interface." Sun's StarOffice has just reached version 7, as well: read on below for some more information on that, including a first-look review.

Jim Hall writes "I just noticed that Sun Microsystems has released StarOffice 7. I've been using the StarOffice betas for a while now, so I have been eagerly awaiting this release! StarOffice is, of course, based on the ever-popular OpenOffice.org. StarOffice 7 software adds functionality to enable export to PDF, and to the Macromedia Flash format. It also introduces the new StarOffice Configuration Manager, the StarOffice Software Development Kit, a macro recorder, and support for assistive technologies, as well as for complex text layouts. Multi-platform running on Linux, Solaris OS and Windows. Only US$79.95 to buy your copy for home (free for edu, plus cost of media+shipping.) Now is a great time to show this to your boss and pitch that 'MS Office to StarOffice' conversion project."

An anonymous reader writes "NewsForge has a 'drive-by' 'quick-peek' look at the new StarOffice up on their site."

One suggestion on office software for the Free Software desktop: Casually re-start a friend or co-worker's Windows computer with Knoppix and show them you can open their Word files with OpenOffice.org. Mention their machine is moderately safe from Word-borne viruses until they reboot into Windows.

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hey there

[Anonymous Coward]

how's it going?

FP

[Anonymous Coward]

FP
I for one welcome the new first post overlord

Problems with gnome.

[anonymous coword]

Ive had a few problems with gnome and gnome-office recently. Gnome works fine on my 1024x768 laptop, but when doing work on my main computer with a 1920x1440 monitor it runs very slow. Its not my computer either, KDE 3.2, XFCE and Fluxbox run really fast on that machine (Athlon 2000 with 256 mb ram)

See my journal to see my other problems I've experianced

Re:FP

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you, thank you. It's good to be here. I just flew in from Phoenix...

Verisign - Sign the Petition Online...

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.petitiononline.com/icanndns/

Stop Verisign DNS Abuse

To: ICANN
We internet users, who either own domain names or have an interest in the domain name system, wish to object to the Verisign Sitefinder system. We believe that the system:

1. breaks technical standards, by rewriting the expected error codes to instead point to Verisign's pay-per-click web directory, and threatens the security and stability of the Internet;

2. breaks technical standards affecting email services, and other internet systems;

3. is anti-competitive, providing Verisign with 20 million eyeballs per day for "free", while not paying for the domains they are resolving. All other market participants pay at least $6 per domain per year (wholesale);

4. violates trademark rights of domain holders, by typosquatting on their .com and .net domains; and

5. violates the authoritative nature of DNS, turning it instead into a "best guess" system filled with uncertainty, thereby destroying the coherence of the DNS for Verisign's own short-term profit.

We hereby demand that ICANN immediately:

a) insist that Verisign cease giving incorrect answers to any query in .com and .net, and should instead follow the IETF standards;

b) if Verisign refuses, should redelegate the .com and .net zones to registries that are more willing to follow the DNS standards;

c) for greater certainty for all gTLD registries, pass a resolution stating that "gTLD Registry operateors WILL return NXDOMAIN for ALL DNS queries for which there is not a REGISTERED domain name"; and

d) that Verisign be reprimanded for their monopolistic abuse of the DNS system, and return all audited gross revenues from their Sitefinder system to stakeholders, via a payment to the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) of ICANN in the name of the Non-Commercial constituency

[Supporting documentation can be found at the sites below]

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/
http: //www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0309/ date.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/0 9/16/003421 0
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/re gis trars/
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archiv es/ga/
http://log.does-not-exist.org/
http://www .icann.org/correspondence/lynn-message-t o-iab-06jan03.htm
http://www.icann.org/correspond ence/iab-message-to -lynn-25jan03.htm
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-l ists/archives/ga/ms g00336.html

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

STFU NIGGARS

[Anonymous Coward]

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Not bad myself

[Anonymous Coward]

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Yeah! We welcome you...

[Anonymous Coward]

We welcome you with open arms.

Re:StarOffice has a lot of catching up to do

[el-spectre]

Ok, I REALLY hate people who bitch about moderation, but they guy (not I, I refuse to use XP) was expressing an opinion politely. How the hell is this flamebait? Moderators, try using the 'logic' part of your brain over the 'politics' part, please.

I want to read this later.. storing the url here

[Anonymous Coward]

keyword: crunchy

Technical mailing lists discussing the verisign DNS thing...

keyword: crunchy

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/

http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/ in dex.html

Re:I want to read this later.. storing the url her

[Anonymous Coward]

delete any spaces slashdots filter(s) added....

wow

[Anonymous Coward]

RMS is putting on a little weight.

I see his penis enhancement treatment is going well.