OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been silently released to servers. It can be found here.
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. Update: Here‘s an interview with OOo’s community manager, Louis Suarez-Potts.
kudos to all the OOo development team!
This is a very important release. I’ve been using it since a few months, and it has some great new features and very-improved startup speed
Now i just miss the native OS X version…
Finally!
Perhaps it’s been “silently released” so that they can make sure the mirrors all have it before announcing it.
Dimwits.
OSNews has a nasty habit of doing this. Give people the chance to get themselves ready to deploy a release and make an announcement. I’ve heard plenty of talk about “journalistic ethics” when it comes to putting quotes in the story text as if they were written by the authors, why not show some in this case and wait for a formal announcement instead of ambushing the release-process.
[1] Incidentally, this story, which features original text, disproves the claim that the “Linked To” text indicates that something is a quote from the article.
Nothing here is quoted from an article. So it makes perfectly sense.
Nothing wrong with OSNews’ behaviour. It’s news and it’s out.
News doesn’t wait for pressreleases
The problem was that in the past, the editors have justified the absence of visibile quotation marks or markup by the claim that the “Linked by” text indicates that it’s not original material.
However having just had a second look at the front-page now, I see they’ve started using quotation marks, so that criticism no longer stands. My apologies.
As great and important OOo is, I think they need to keep the OS X port up to date. OOo isn’t truly cross platform w/o OS X.
I would prefer NATIVE OS X OpenOffice, not a port that use XWindow. If they want OpenOffice to look more professional on Mac.
OOo isn’t truly cross platform w/o OS X.
…. or a BeOS/Zeta/Haiku port 😉
“OOo isn’t truly cross platform w/o OS X.”
…. or a BeOS/Zeta/Haiku port 😉
or an Amiga Port, or Risc OS port – where’s my Risc OS port? Not good enough
I’m still waiting for a native OpenBSD version…
Hopefully there will be developers that will pick up the source codes so they can port OOo 2.0 to listed OSes on this board such as OS X, BeOS and BSD based OSes..
http://ftp.idilis.ro/mirrors/openoffice.org/stable/2.0.0/
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/openoffice.org/stable/2.0.0/
Couple of mirrors.
Am I wrong or this story has been posted to the RSS headlines but still is not available on the front page?
Anyway, I’ll second the assertion that OSNews should wait until the proper release being announced on the project’s page. This always cause a sort of mini-slashdot effect on those sites that helps nobody…
DeadFish Man
The release is already official. I posted this item just a short while before they put out the official release announcement.
Check http://www.openoffice.org .
The release was not already official when this article was posted. The front page was declaring the 1 series as stable, and the 2 series as beta.
It’s the mailing list or the posting of the announcement page that make a release official. Not the updating of the front page.
That practice isn’t really seen anywhere on the internet, where “front page post” constitues the official release annoucement.
Right… which is why it was “silently released to servers.”. Great one.
Does the OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz still include RPMs? Is there no generic way of installing it? I am afraid I cannot build it myself due to lack of PAM (using Slackware here – I know I can convert the RPMs, but it is not always clean).
I have it installed and running on my XP and Win200 boxes at work (just used Calc to submit my timesheet using the company’s Excel template). It seems faster than the last RC, maybe less debugging code included, I don’t really know. I am looking forward to installing and trying it out on my Linux box at home tonight.
Damnit and I just upgraded to one of the betas haha
BitTorrent is zooming–I was downloading at 500 KB/s a few minutes ago.
http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/download.html
BT IS flyin….
All I can say is wow. I think with the 2.0 release, this project has now hit critical mass since a lot of people will now be installing it on their computers and a lot of people will be eager to help the project. As exciting as this release is, the next one will be far more exciting as more and more people join to make it the solution for all problems. Great job OO team!
OOo 2 is great.
Open source is the future.
Sorry, mrs Gates, Ballmer.
>> Sorry, mrs Gates
What does this have to do with Gates’ wife?
Just downloaded the 2.0 release.
First of all it is a tar.gz file. WTG guys. How many years have compressed installers been in use?
Open up the archive and find:
openoffice.org-base-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-calc-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core01-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core02-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core03-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core03u-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core04-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core04u-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core05-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core05u-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core06-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core07-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core08-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core09-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core10-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-draw-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-gnome-integration-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-graphicfilter-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-impress-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-javafilter-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-math-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-pyuno-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-spellcheck-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-testtool-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-writer-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-xsltfilter-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
and install instructions.
Yeah, people are just going to be jumping on the OpenOffice bandwagon.
Uh… rpm -ivh openoffice*.rpm ?
That’s difficult!
If you don’t know how to do this, simply wait some days for the release to show up on your distro repositories and install it with some graphical tool (yast, yumex, synaptic, whatever)
I’m waiting a couple of days – then I will “apt-get install openoffice”.
No problem whatsoever.
I hope they make some multimeida tutorials as good as openoffice to make it standard for the industry and academia. It’s a long way but this could be a good start. Ms office is dominating especially excel almost the synonym of spreadsheet.
“Uh… rpm -ivh openoffice*.rpm ?
That’s difficult!”
Linux on the desktop failure Exhibit A.
Thanks for making my point.
In a few days time it will be in distribution repositories.
Then people will just use their package managers and have a GUI four-click install method – they won’t even be required to have to find a download site!
I’m going to convince a lot of friends and family to download and use this OOo 2.0. I’ll send them opendocuments and a download link for OOo, that’ll teach them 🙂
The page that opens when you click on the download link has links to Installation Instructions and Guides, Windows and Linux on the right. If I click on that link, I get the Windows instructions, which are incomplete. If I click on any of the links for Linux, the url changes but the page remains the same.
I’m not saying I don’t know how to install OO in Linux, I’m just hoping someone from the OO website will see this and fix it.
Just to keep the mirrors in better shape, those that are able to may want to use the torrents… they’re absolutely blazing right now, as of 6:30 eastern…
Have fun, this looks like a good release.
Now work must be done to bring the GUI up to Office 12 standards. A small release, just to work on the GUI and fix some of the worst 2.0 bugs could be advantageous in shortening the development cycle.
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Now work must be done to bring the GUI up to Office 12 standards. A small release, just to work on the GUI and fix some of the worst 2.0 bugs could be advantageous in shortening the development cycle.
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People are not exactly throwing themselves after new versions of MS-Office. The reason people have to upgrade is that their old version is end of lifed by Microsoft so that they can’t get any support from Microsoft anymore.
As Office 12 becomes the new product to upgrade to, it will be sufficiently different to require lots of training. Then switching to the much more familiar GUI of OpenOffice would be a good choice as that would reduce your training costs.
Not looking like Office 12 and looking more like Microsoft office always have looked like could be a good thing.
I see it STILL sucks at kerning words properly. Are they using freetype even under windows, or did are they just completely inept at consistant measurements?
Th ere is no rea son f or it t o spa ce th e wor ds li ke thi s. (that’s an exageration, but…)
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b243/deathshadow60/difficult.jpg
I have nothing near those kerning problems on OpenOffice.
Using the same text in both MS Word (2003) and OpenOffice Writer it seems that both do a bad job on different words:
http://mpardo1.iespana.es/kerning.JPG
Word messes up “million” and Writer messes up “like”. Both render “difficult” inconsistantly from line to line.
http://img490.imageshack.us/my.php?image=difficulties7ze.png
Difficult, like and million in OpenOffice, Kword, Word and WordPerfect.
I get the feeling this will be a bit like a Rorschach test, folks will see different things
I’d like to know where that KWord for Windows came from. I preffer KWord but can’t find it for Windows, although this one probably runs in Cygwin doesn’t it?
Yeah, Cygwin. It isn’t even running on this box, it’s running on my debian box in the next room. Behold the power of X.. of course it’s a bit slow over my 802.11b wireless
I’m pretty sure you can get KWord running locally in Cygwin (instead of over the network), and with qt4 we should be seeing a truly native KOffice at some point. There is already a native Kexi.
OO.org gets some points for being the only office suite in that shot to use XP styles, though the other apps are a bit older, and one isn’t even a windows app hehe
If you open an Access ’97 database with linked tables to MS SQL Server, the top record is copied down to every row of the table. That is, every row of the table displays the same data as the top row! Refreshing does not help.
This means it will be largely unusable as an Access replacement in business at this stage.
Just in time my milk expires 21 Oct and OOo2 was released 20 Oct so the other guy was right when he told a few days back that OOo2 could release before your recently purchaced milk expires.
Just downloaded the 2.0 release.
First of all it is a tar.gz file. WTG guys. How many years have compressed installers been in use?
Open up the archive and find:
openoffice.org-base-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-calc-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core01-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core02-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core03-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core03u-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core04-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core04u-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core05-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core05u-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core06-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core07-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core08-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core09-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-core10-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-draw-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-gnome-integration-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-graphicfilter-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-impress-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-javafilter-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-math-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-pyuno-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-spellcheck-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-testtool-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-writer-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
openoffice.org-xsltfilter-2.0.0-3.i586.rpm
and install instructions.
Yeah, people are just going to be jumping on the OpenOffice bandwagon.
I must agree. Although I had no problems doing rpm2tgz on my Slackware and everything installed and is working fine, I have to say that having a proper, distro independent installer would be better and more flexible.
Actually, when thinking about the Sun installers now, it seems like they have some incompetant packagers there.
Java installer on Windows is also faulty as it never asks if you want to remove your previous Java install and just dumps everything into a new install folder.
And when uninstalling it leaves all this crap behind in several places using up many megabytes of space.
Sun software will not be taken seriously untill they learn how to do proper installs, upgrades, and unistalls on Windows.
And the Linux Java installer? Well, even worse, no point commenting further.
I guess they figure that the people installing these packages will know what to do and they are probably right. But it’s still no excuse for half-ass, unprofessional packaging.
The installer in Ooo.org 1.x was good though. Why not stick with that?
Oh well, it’s free and it runs on Linux so …
{{I must agree. Although I had no problems doing rpm2tgz on my Slackware and everything installed and is working fine, I have to say that having a proper, distro independent installer would be better and more flexible.}}
I strongly disagree.
Why not just wait a few days until OpenOffice 2 is included in Slackware repositories?
This is what the various distributions actually do. They take open-source packages and re-compile and re-package them for you so they will work correctly with the rest of your distribution.
This approach is always going to work far better than trying to get Sun or OpenOffice.org (or whoever) to make a one-size-fits-all binary distro independent installer.
{{And the Linux Java installer? Well, even worse, no point commenting further.}}
Once again, get the java package from your distribution repositories, rather than from Sun. Install the packages via your package manager. Far easier.
What crap does it leave behind? The installer files? It posts a message during the install process notifying of the files…so…I dont see a problem unless you are talking about something entirely different on the Windows platform?
Please, somebody build it for Mac Os X. If possible, G4 and G5 optimised versions.
@suryad
I was talking about Java on Windows not Ooo.org
In particular, after uninstall Java leaves “Sun” folders in “Documents and Settings” under all user accounts, and often under “All Usersapplication data” and “Default Userapplication data” which is stupid because if I uninstall java then why the f*** do I need those folders left there (it’s not like there is any important data in them).
And it also often leaves “Sun” folder under “Program files” and under “Windows”.
And after install it leaves a few files in “temp” folder.
But mainly the stuff in “Documents and Settings” is annoying.
@Anonymous (IP: 202.20.20.—)
Well, you can disagree all you want but the fact is that you don’t have a clue.
There may be a Slackware package released for the latest version of Slackware but what if I’m running the previous version or even couple versions back? Not everyone is always uptodate with the latest.
And what about the dozens of small distros that may not have the bandwidth or resources to package and distribute a package the size of Ooo.org
As a matter of fact Slackware doesn’t include Ooo.org on its CD’s and a Slackware specific package didn’t show up on Linuxpackages for a long time and it stayed at an early beta version and was not updated any more.
So there.
And no, the various distributions actually do not take open-source packages the size of Ooo.org and re-compile and re-package them for us, at least not on regular basis and only a handfull of distros do it.
Same goes for Java, I haven’t seen jre-1_5_0_04 for Slackware or Debian. I had to download and install from Sun.
Your may be well meaning with suggestions but unfortunatelly you’re a bit short on the facts.
{{Well, you can disagree all you want but the fact is that you don’t have a clue.}}
Ad hominem attacks will get you nowhere.
{{There may be a Slackware package released for the latest version of Slackware but what if I’m running the previous version or even couple versions back? Not everyone is always uptodate with the latest.}}
Debian maintains a number of repositories for several versions back – Woody, Sarge, Sid & now Etch. SuSe likwise. Mandrake (now Mandriva) likewise. RedHat – you would probably have to go to outside parties.
Most major packages (such as OpenOffice) will get back-ported. It is only Microsoft that likes to “orphan” older versions of its OS, not so much Linux distributions.
{{And what about the dozens of small distros that may not have the bandwidth or resources to package and distribute a package the size of Ooo.org}}.
What about them? If you are really worried about that – then stick with a more mainstream distribution. If you would really rather go out on a limb – compile it yourself since you obviously have no real need of more mainstream support.
{{As a matter of fact Slackware doesn’t include Ooo.org on its CD’s and a Slackware specific package didn’t show up on Linuxpackages for a long time and it stayed at an early beta version and was not updated any more.
So there.}}
All the more reason to go with a more well-supported distribution. If this is your concern I recommend you go with a distro which can use repositories of Debian, RedHat, SuSe or Mandriva.
{{And no, the various distributions actually do not take open-source packages the size of Ooo.org and re-compile and re-package them for us, at least not on regular basis and only a handfull of distros do it.}}
So that is why you stick with the 80% (or more) of distros that are based on one of the big 4. I use a rare distro myself – KANOTIX – but I like this one because it is nearly pure Debian and it uses the Debian repositories.
{{Same goes for Java, I haven’t seen jre-1_5_0_04 for Slackware or Debian. I had to download and install from Sun.}}
http://www1.apt-get.org/search.php?query=j2re&submit=&arch%5B~*…
I get about 50 hits for Debian “sun-j2re1.5” packages.
{{the fact is that you don’t have a clue.}}
Shoe is on the other foot now, wouldn’t you say oh clueless one?
{{Your may be well meaning with suggestions but unfortunatelly you’re a bit short on the facts.}}
ROFLMAO.
Try agin sunshine.
@ Anonymous (IP: 220.240.172.—)
Not so fast grasshopper!
If you are really worried about that – then stick with a more mainstream distribution. If you would really rather go out on a limb – compile it yourself since you obviously have no real need of more mainstream support.
You prove my point here quite nicely.
Like I said, it’ll be hard to find Ooo.org 2 final for most distro for a while.
http://www1.apt-get.org/search.php?query=j2re&submit=&arch~…
I get about 50 hits for Debian “sun-j2re1.5” packages.
Ok, I am not a seasoned Debian user, just started with Debian recently after using Slackware for a long time.
So I rely on the sources listed in the default Debian config. Although I am aware I can add more sources for packages. But they can be trouble sometime and break things.
Also the would be 50 hits you got are misleading because only couple would list the update 4 for Java which I was after (earlier versions had security holes, just for your information),one of them was for Woody and one for Sarge.
Also I’m not quite clear if all those search results are actually official sources for debs. I kind of doubt it. And would I want to be downloading Java from some unknown hacker in Neitherlands? I don’t think so.
Like I said, it’s not as simple as you make it out to be.
And with the speed Debian is moving you’ll probably be waiting for OFFICIAL package from Debian until Christmas. Whereas I already have it (the one from Ooo.org) on my Slackware and will have it installed on my Debian probably over the weekend.
Oookeydookey?
{{You prove my point here quite nicely.
Like I said, it’ll be hard to find Ooo.org 2 final for most distro for a while.}}
Au contraire. You have multiple choices …
(1) You can stick with an “out there” isolated distro (like Slackware) that is not structured the same as any of the big 4. OK fine if you like that – but if you do that recognise that your choice necessarily brings with it a lack of support – you may need to roll your own software from source, or you may need to convert package formats. If you don’t mind doing that – cool.
(2) You can stick with a staid & conservative choice that takes a long time testing new software before supporting it in repositories – Debian Official is one such. If this is your choice don’t expect easy access to new releases overnight – and you won’t be disappointed.
(3) Or you can go (like I have) with a more “cutting edge” (and possibly quite obscure) distro that nevertheless is based directly on one of the main distros – I use KANOTIX, but MEPIS or KNOPIX or any of the Debian Common Core (ooops, I meant to say DCC) all can use the main Debian repositories – often they provide a small “specialist” repository of their own to customise the offering a little as well.
(4) Finally pick a “cutting edge” but “solitary or loner” distro that nevertheless is really well supported – I am talking Ubuntu here of course.
There are many ways you can go. My point is that if you decide to go with option 3 or 4 (which come with excellent backing repositories in support) – then just wait a few days and you will be able to get your new OpenOffice 2 application as easy as pie with a four-click GUI install.
If you don’t decide to go with an option that has such repository support – then that is your choice. It will be harder for you to obtain and install new software – but that is what you chose!
{{And with the speed Debian is moving you’ll probably be waiting for OFFICIAL package from Debian until Christmas. Whereas I already have it (the one from Ooo.org) on my Slackware and will have it installed on my Debian probably over the weekend.
Oookeydookey?}}
Fine. Exactly what are you complaining about then with respect to Slackware?
OFFICIAL packages from Debian include Debian “experimental”, “testing” and “unstable”. They are just as OFFICIAL as Debian stable – but far more “cutting edge”.
For example I use KANOTIX 2005.03:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kanotix
which came with a beta of OpenOffice 2 and KDE 3.4.1. There is a more recent update available (as of about a week ago) – but that is still a release candidate. By the time it is released it will undoubtedly come with OpenOffice 2 and KDE 3.5. As a bonus, KANOTIX has far better hardware detection than Ubuntu.
You can’t get much more cutting edge than that – but still it can use almost 100% of the Debian repositories.
So don’t come on here and try to say that support to easily install new software on Linux from repositories does not exist – because it emphatically does exist for the right distro choices – so someone will call you out on attempted trolls like that.
{{And with the speed Debian is moving you’ll probably be waiting for OFFICIAL package from Debian until Christmas. }}
http://openoffice.debian.net/
“Latest news
2005-10-22: 2.0 uploaded to unstable
It’s done! openoffice.org 2.0.0-1 was just uploaded with target unstable.”
{{It’s done! openoffice.org 2.0.0-1 was just uploaded (to a Debian repository) with target unstable.}}
… and it works, too.
Guys, there is a portable version for those who do not want to install OpenOffice:
http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/portable_openoffice/
Bye!