OpenOffice.org Hits 1.1

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 1, 2003 @07:24AM from the native-pdf-is-sweet dept.

sander writes "OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 has finally been released (after 5 release candidates -- should make it pretty sweet). The announcement is here, there is a really nice features page and a long list of mirrors carrying the goodies." OO.org releases for languages other than English should be here soon, too.

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RC5 and 1.1.0 is the same by Lord+Satri · 2003-10-01 07:31 · Score: 5, Informative

FYI, received this interesting info from OOO's staff :
In my enthusiasm for OpenOffice.org 1.1, I neglected to clarify a point (see http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ ReadMsg?msgId=848545&listName=announce ).

OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 is *identical* to the recently released OpenOffice.org RC5.

Therefore, if you have downloaded RC5, there is no need to download 1.1.

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Here's a nice page by zr-rifle · 2003-10-01 07:31 · Score: 5, Informative

with the complete illustrated feature list.
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features /1.1/

Loading times seem to have been improved, that's great news since that's what's keeping me using Abiword for common word processing jobs at uni. Let's see if there's already an ebuild for it...

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Re:For those that have tried both.... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-01 07:32 · Score: 5, Informative

StarOffice 7 has a database component (AdabasD) that is not OSS, since its not created by Sun. SO7 also has more clip-art style stuff, a WordPerfect filter (also not OSS due to 3rd party code), and a different spelling checker (same thing again).

And it costs $79 (OpenOffice.org 1.1 is free), but you get Sun support with it.

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Re:Start up time? by madfgurtbn · 2003-10-01 07:39 · Score: 5, Informative

Has the start-up time been reduced for this release?

It looks like their website is groaning under the load right now, so I can't give you a link, but there is a roadmap up somewhere which says startup time is one of the highest priority goals for version 2.0.

Startup is still quite slow even on speedy hardware, but I don't think it has been one of their highest priorities yet.

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For those who run into trouble looking for mirrors by ErrorBase · 2003-10-01 07:42 · Score: 5, Informative

Now at a station near you !
Windows : Linorg Projeto Brasil ISC | IndianaU | BinaryCode | ibiblio.org | PAIR | SecsUp | Telentente | Umbc Vienna UT

Linux : IndianaU | ISC | BehrSolutions | BinaryCode | ibiblio.org | pair | SecsUp | Telentente | Umbc Vienna UT Belnet | KULeuvenNet CVUT Sunsite FUNET
Re:Start up time? by MarcQuadra · 2003-10-01 07:54 · Score: 5, Informative

I'm running on a hotrod 1466Mhz athlon / 768MB/ 10GB running gentoo. First load takes about 11 seconds (that's a long time) but subsequent loads are pretty zippy. I suggest you either prelink the app (which I don't do) or put a script in your init.d directory to recursively cat the /opt/OpenOffice directory to /dev/null, that would effectively 'precache' the application.

Also, try building from source if you can, you'll be able to set the optimization and several options that you don't see with a binary-only install.

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Re:Excellent! by allan_q · 2003-10-01 08:02 · Score: 5, Informative

Just click on Actions > Expunge to delete these marked messages. You can also hit Ctrl-E. After a while it becomes second nature.