The OpenOffice.org community 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. Scroll down this page for mirrors.
OpenOffice.org 1.0 Released
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It appears that 1.0 is currently only available in binary form for Linux. There don’t seem to be any Win32 binaries available on the mirrors at this point.
That seems kind of like a bad call on the part of someone. After all, Sun’s numbers showed that over 85% of the downloads were Windows versions of StarOffice.
Actually, both source and windows/linux binaries are available. I already downloaded them from here:
http://openoffice.e4a.it/1.0.0/
“Actually, both source and windows/linux binaries are available. I already downloaded them from here:
http://openoffice.e4a.it/1.0.0/“
Ahh… Cool! Thanks.
It seems only some of the mirrors are carrying the Windows binaries though. I checked the New York site for example and it only has Linux ones available.
Is open office the same as star office minus the availability of paid support from SUN?
Brett
“Is open office the same as star office minus the availability of paid support from SUN?”
It is the same as StarOffice 6 except it lacks the following two things:
#1: A dictionary. It does have a spell checker, but not a dictionary. This was because Sun had licensed the dictionary from a third party and so they could not distribute it as open source.
#2: A database. OpenOffice does not have the option of adding a limited version of Adabase like StarOffice does. Once again, this is because Sun licenses Adabase from a third party, so they could not distribute it as open source.
I use OpenOffice.org in Windows XP and in Linux and it works very well. It has all I and my family needs and all for free. Well maybe I miss some Outlook/Evolution like component.
Has anyone else had problems with OpenOffice? Anytime I try to save anything, I get an error dialog and it just quits! This makes it completely useless. Also, when trying to edit the toolbars, it does the same. There isn’t any document recovery either 🙁
Oh well, maybe soon it will be usable.
This works pretty well on Win XP. Looks like we may finally have a contender to MS Office.
All corporations (no exceptions! Microsoft included!) should switch to Linux 7.2 on servers and desktops (GNOME UI) and should run Open Office 1.0.
In these difficult economic times, and considering Microsoft’s new pricing structures, why waste money?
Open Office is slick and performs very well even on an old 300 mhz box!
I think Gobe may wish to re-think Productive for Linux.
ciao
yc
are you talking about far future^^
No sir!
Get your ISO right here and burn your bootable CD!
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/
Installation is as easy if not easier than Winblows!
The GNOME UI is so nice and flexible! Unless you run Winblows apps that don’t exist on Linux you should switch now!!!
ciao
yc
>Installation is as easy if not easier than Winblows!
Said like a true GNU/Linux zealot
Actually, Linux 2.4 is current…check http://www.kernel.org . 7.2 is just the current version of Red Hat Linux.
>>Installation is as easy if not easier than Winblows!
>
>Said like a true GNU/Linux zealot
Said like a true Windows zealot…way to go.
<shudder>someone refering to RedHat 7.2 as Linux 7.2 </shudder>
I think that installing Gentoo linux is quite linear and anyone that can read the install guide can accomplish to it w/out any problems.
I know people that has problems installing win98 just because you have to reboot few times before starting the true setup.
Excuuuuuse me!
I did mean *Redhat* Linux 7.2! Oh well, life goes on…
I’m not really a Linux Zealot. I am a BeOS fanatic who also uses Linux…
Waiting for OBOS and/or a BeOS based PalmDesktop OS.
ciao
yc
> <shudder>someone refering to RedHat 7.2 as Linux 7.2
> </shudder>
<shudder> Someone *using* RedHat. </shudder>
The GNOME UI is so nice and flexible!
One of my favorite things is the usability report on Gnome’s website that shows how users had trouble performing even some of the most basic tasks in Gnome. But no matter, I’m sure it’s a good idea for people to switch, right yc? I mean, in “these difficult economic times,” why “waste money” on software when you can spend a hundredfold as much with training, support, and lost productivity! Sounds like a plan!
(sheesh, it was bad enough when yc was merely a BeOS idealist)
> The GNOME UI is so nice and flexible!
I HATE the Gnome UI and the GTK+ interface. It is ugly, it does not make sense UI-wise in many places and its widgets are ugly like hell, plus GTK+ redraws its windows not many times a second, and it really gets into my nerves. Ximian Gnome is not much better either.
I like KDE much better, but KDE has one of the Gnome problems: it is bloated. Menus and little menus everywhere and an overcrowded Kicker.
At least Gnome is faster than KDE 3.
This is why I still use either WindowMaker or BlackBox under any of my Unices. They are not super-user friendly, but they are fast, lightweight and straight-forward. And in case of BlackBox, it is not a wannabe. As for WindowMaker, it tries to be a NeXT, but the *good* thing in its case, is that it successfully operates like NeXT did, which is a UI made by a company who spend serious R&D money on designing it, not from Joe&Julie Hacker somewhere in the world, who doesn’t have a clue about UI design, but they happen to know how to use GiMP and C/C++.
> Has anyone else had problems with OpenOffice? Anytime I try to save anything, I get an error dialog and it just quits!
Check this out, someone has the same problem under Linux.
http://www.lycoris.org/viewtopic.php?topic=287&forum=15&7
It seems that you downloaded an old version of OpenOffice instead of 1.0.
it borked for me :o( Oh well, will have to try later, when noone is watching (downloading, I mean).
Hey, I just missed an almost-flamewar between Gnomes and anti-Gnomes! I am in the anti-Gnome camp, for the record. Slow like hell, and still buggy. Last time I removed it because: I was selecting a screen saver, then I clicked on the button that starts xlock and BAM! all the widgets disappeared, only the windows contents remained, and all of them stacked in the left upper corner… and no way to get the stuff back. After several attempts, I just removed everything Gnome, and never looked back.
Hey, I hope OpenOffice is better at handling Word97 docs than AbiWord.
Always try downloading big files with a download manager *that supports resuming*. For example, Gozilla! under Windows or Downloader for X under Linux.
i think the only true alternative to ms office would be gobe.
I could never get OpenOffice or StarOffice to install on my XP box at work. I posted a bug report and they just wrote back and said, can’t replicate. Sheesh … no log files during the installation to see where the problem is.
Another thing about it … it’s crap for viewing Office 2000 documents that have any feature like lines or tables with lines.
To the OpenOffice.org team, congratulations. Finally, I can use a consistent interface for word processing, spreadsheeting, presentationing for Windows or Linux, and I don’t have to spend any money for it! Just my monthly cable bill. Can’t wait to see if they do release a Mac OSX version. Then I will finally buy a Mac! Goodbye crashing, goodbye ugly GUI!
Is it possible to open and edit .doc files using wine and files from wordpad?
I know what wine is supposed to do – but not how it works. I would be interested in some more info on this approach.
thanks
>>I HATE the Gnome UI and the GTK+ interface. It is ugly, it does not make sense UI-wise…
Wow, I find Gnome to be very nice and responsive.
It’s no BeOS Tracker but it sure gives Winblows a run for it’s money.
While it’s not an exact moniker of Winblows, if one takes a few minutes to go through the preferences and settings, you can get it to look very nice. You can even get it to look somewhat like BeOS and it has lots of themes.
Linux servers are getting easier and easier to configure and manage. For many businesses Linux works and scales very well.
I think that many people who don’t like it are often unwilling to change. They have their Winblows way of doing things and simply refuse to change.
I still say that in an office environment where employees run specific set of apps, Linux can save a fortune. The only issue is that Winblows has all the apps right now but that’s slowly changing.
ciao
yc
Has anyone used SOT Office2002?
https://www.sot.com/2K_LINUX/visitor/index.php3?LANGUAGE=1
???
Hi, I have setup a German mirror for the German version of OpenOffice:
http://bezip.de
Ciao,
Sebastian
“Another thing about it … it’s crap for viewing Office 2000 documents that have any feature like lines or tables with lines.”
I’ve never had any problem importing tables unless they were extremely complicated.
But even so, OpenOffice’s Word comptibility is better than any other program I have tried for Linux or Windows. I’m an author and my publisher requires I send them Word documents using a template they provide and with Word’s revision tracking features enabled. OpenOffice’s compatibility is so good that my publisher can’t even tell I am not using Word. It imports the templates fine and it completely supports the revision tracking.
“I could never get OpenOffice or StarOffice to install on my XP box at work. I posted a bug report and they just wrote back and said, can’t replicate. Sheesh … no log files during the installation to see where the problem is.”
This may sound like a stupid question… But do you have admin rights that allow you to install software on the XP box? Some software can be installed on XP without admin install rights. But other software cannot. It depends on what the software tries to do with the registry and such.
If they wrote back and said they can’t replicate the problem, how can they fix it? Besides, I can’t replcate the problem either. And apparently almost no one else can.
Like I said, it may sound like stating the obvious, but make sure you have admin privilages to install software.
I have been using StarOffice 6.0 for a little while now (via the Mandrake Club), and its been very, very solid for me. Previously I was rebooting into windows to work on word docs and excel spreadsheets, and this has removed all of that overhead for me.
I’m able to receive documents and spreadsheets, work on them, save them out, and mail them back with no problems whatsoever.
Now, if you do lots of scripting and use a bunch of the word details, those won’t work. However, 98% of people out there use it to write a document, and those will carry over fine.
I’ve also used it to view powerpoint presentations quite well.. even down to having embedded components in one.. (an embedded spreadsheet, for example.) Nice!
I downloaded OpenOffice 1.0 as well, but I think the main difference is that OpenOffice 1 just has some bugfixes and such since the StarOffice 6.0 branch.
This is why I still use either WindowMaker or BlackBox under any of my Unices. They are not super-user friendly, but they are fast, lightweight and straight-forward.
How can something be “not super-user friendly” and “straight-forward” at the same time? Straight-forward is the pinnicle of software design and the definition of user friendly.
Anyway, OpenOffice is an excellent office suite.
Wow! OpenOffice ROCKS! Another reason not to buy M$ Office, it’s not even FREE! Maybe on Mars. Yeah right.
is that it uses the same UI for WIndows, Linux and Solaris version. What I would prefer is that I could have a version that goes with my purty windows xp silver colour scheme, linux’s kde liquid theme and solaris 9’s gnome 2 [place name of theme here]. How often does one move platforms anyway to justify a Win9x looking fake UI? Must we be the same as Windows versions of Office?