OpenOffice.org 2.1 Released With New Templates 262
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.
.torrent (Score:5, Informative)
only a bit better than linking to their direct download links...
http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ [openoffice.org] torrents for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
A Mac OS X version of 2.1 does not seem to be available yet.
Release Notes (Score:4, Informative)
64-bit support? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:64bit? (Score:3, Informative)
Public domain clip arts (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.openclipart.org/ [openclipart.org]
http://www.wpclipart.com/ [wpclipart.com]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Clip_Art_Librar
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.
Re:My Suggestion to OO Developers (Score:2, Informative)
I just did a comparison with MS Office XP and it takes about 30 Meg each for Word and Excel, Powerpoint only adds another 8 Meg. Total for the three of about 65 Meg.
BTW, the startup time seems longer for the MS Office apps (I don't have either suite "pre-loaded" for fast startup).
Re:My Suggestion to OO Developers (Score:3, Informative)
The trickle of power used to keep its RAM warm doesn't compare to the amount of power (and cash) saved by running such an old laptop.
Cash maybe, power almost certainly not. Unless your Pentium 3 processor sips less than 31 watts of power. That's all the Core Duo requires. [hardwarecentral.com]Re:My Suggestion to OO Developers (Score:4, Informative)
My response, point by point:
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.
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.
Well, yeah, what do you think NeoOffice is, if not Mac users doing it themselves?
Re:OOo not keeping up (Score:3, Informative)
Re:My Suggestion to OO Developers (Score:3, Informative)
Re:my failed attempt to evangelize (Score:3, Informative)
If you still want to use OpenOffice, and need to do fancy charting, you can use Graph on Windows, or gnuplot on anything. Do your chart in one of them, and then import the PNG files to your document. It isn't the most simple and elegant method, but it does work.
This is the OpenOffice Chart module that is under development:
http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html [openoffice.org]
Re:Here's your business case (Score:3, Informative)
But what you describe is a management problem. If management (a) hires dummies, (b) doesn't train the dummies, and then (c) gives the dummies tools that aren't making them any more productive (but do look pretty) then.... Ooooh, shiny!
Alternatively, management could bring in tools that will actually help staff to do their jobs, and ignore whingers who want to play instead of doing useful work. Yes, that might just do it! :-)
Re:What Mozilla is so great and OOo sucks? (Score:3, Informative)
OpenOffice is not written in Java (Score:2, Informative)
Re:My Suggestion to OO Developers (Score:3, Informative)
OK, I'll play. Mr AC, I think you have missed my point on several counts, so I'll elaborate.