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OpenOffice.org 2.1 Released With New Templates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ooh-shiny dept.

Several readers wrote in to mention the release of OpenOffice.org 2.1. It includes support for 64-bit Linux and a number of other improvements, including multiple monitor support for Impress, improved Calc HTML export, and automatic notification of updates. Also, all of the templates and clip-art that were submitted for the template contest are available to download.

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  1. .torrent by defy+god · · Score: 5, Informative

    only a bit better than linking to their direct download links...

    http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ torrents for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.

    A Mac OS X version of 2.1 does not seem to be available yet.

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  2. Release Notes by chill · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apparently the submitter has an aversion to useful information, like release notes.

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  3. Public domain clip arts by Lord+Satri · · Score: 4, Informative

    I never thought clip arts were important, maybe because I don't use them, until my wife (yes, even on /.) really required Clip Arts, and since I'm the pseudo-geek-of-the-house-using-open-stuff-whenever -possible, I had to find public domain clip arts.

    http://www.openclipart.org/
    http://www.wpclipart.com/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Clip_Art_Library

    My 10 minutes search on the Internet two weeks ago gave no that much interesting results. Only now I can understand how OpenOffice must also, somewhere amongst the priorities, continue to add clip arts and templates.

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  4. Re:My Suggestion to OO Developers by nine-times · · Score: 3, Informative

    My response, point by point:

    Why doesn't apple do that?

    Good question. To be fair, I can understand if Apple doesn't want to do it, given that NeoOffice competes with both Apple's iWork suite and Microsoft Office for OSX. Apple want to sell iWork, and they're afraid of losing MS Office, so giving a whole lot of support for NeoOffice might be a bit dicey. You might argue that Apple should ditch iWork and start over with OpenOffice as a base, but Apple would likely feel that they'd need to make too many changes for that project to be worthwhile, create a permanent fork of OOo, and finally rebuild Pages and Keynote on someone else's terms. It doesn't sound probable.

    However, as an Apple customer, I would be in favor of any support Apple would be willing to provide to the guys at NeoOffice.

    It's not like anybody else is going to benefit from neooffice.

    I think it's worth noting that you could make the same argument about the Windows port of OOo. No one will benefit except Windows users, so why doesn't Microsoft do it? Of course, the truth is that we all benefit from having cross-platform support for the applications we use. It means we can move between platforms with a minimal learning curve, and rely on common formats and features.

    If not apple how about the mac users themselves.

    Well, yeah, what do you think NeoOffice is, if not Mac users doing it themselves?