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- krat3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirror/OpenOffice/stable/2.0.0
ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/openoffice/stable/2.0.0/ - handcoding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Mac version (which is lagging on the 1.1.4 tree) is here: http://www.neooffice.org/
- Leonhard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"You either know how to write English or you don't." That has to be the worst argument ever.
Whoever uses the spellchecker?
Who uses the whole ***** program? I mean, you either know how to write a report or not, who needs any aid??
Here's the answer: Everyone interessted in improveing the quality of their work. - JayRod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I still have the old version and I like it. I would still wait until a couple updates to upgrade. MS Office costs too much. Yes there is ways of getting it, from student editions, to buying it off some guys trunk that won't likely be there the next day. I'll just stick with OpenOffice, but thank you anyways Mr. Gates.
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm phasing out Office since OO.org has everything I need. Who uses the grammar checker anyway? You either know how to write English or you don't.
- gotamd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"There is no such rule saying you can't do that."
Nice ;) - pupa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"many people dont know what a predicate or preposition is and how a sentence shouldn't end with one."
Bull. I've asked several English majors/professors about this and there is absolutely nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition. There is no such rule saying you can't do that. - manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For Mac, there is the OOo 2.0 beta (1.9.130) you can find on the mirrors - the most recent beta there is, and it requires x11. It runs rather stable, though.
I hope the final stable release for Mac comes soon enough - the NeoOffice guys can't start on NeoOffice 2.0 until the final release comes out. - scarper86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"many people dont know what a predicate or preposition is and how a sentence shouldn't end with one."
And others don't know that the first word in a sentence is capitalized and that contractions require an apostrophe. - maburger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is still not appearing on the main web site, but several other mirror seem to have this as well.
- TheSawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Torrents are up as well:
http://borft.student.utwente.nl:6969/
Just not listed from the offical site yet. - JustMy2¢, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So doom02 sez:
"Are the file extensions the same? .doc, .xls ... Can you go back and forth with these documents? Say I have word at work and OOffice at home?"
If it is like previous versions, the file extensions are different. OO prefers to save its files in its own native file format, but imports/exports to MS Office files very well. My experience is that you can convert back & forth pretty easily. Just be advised that everything has to be imported/exported.
Also, OO and Office documents have different defaults for just about every page formatting setting. Getting page layout exactly the same between packages will drive you nuts. I would wait to finish the pagination and layout on one or the other. - dametenshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and magnets as well:
windows: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:GTVGSJJQCGVM47VQVHDPASKELDKBAD7J
linux: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:CYL5PIW6NHGKSGYQ56WDTXP6GVG4DJZJ - bash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yay its done...after a decade or two. speaking of bugs, how about they get their act together and center the freakin' page?
- republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Does it still look like crap?"
Looks a hell of a lot better than your precious piece of ***** MS office! - republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"koffice is better."
Please elaborate. I am interested in all MS alternatives. - matx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Open office is great
That math thing that comes with it comes useful for making math formulas. Havent yet seen that in microsoft office yet.
And it looks nicer to MS office too. - nonsensor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> "koffice is better."
> Please elaborate. I am interested in all MS alternatives.
You'd have to be interested in MS Operating System alternatives, as koffice runs, hence the name, on KDE (a Desktop for Linux, BSD, etc). It's also not better, so anyone would be hard pressed to elaborate on that statement. It has more components (like a Visio clone and a weak sort of Project clone), and the standard K philosophy is that more is better. OOo, especially with 2.0, has better Office compatibility (for working in the real world) and concentrates on making the features is has work well. - tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Grammae=Grammar
- republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0can not get any links to work. Anyone else having this problem?
Great digg, have been waiting for this for what seems like years!
lol - Dom02, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Are the file extensions the same? .doc, .xls ... Can you go back and forth with these documents? Say I have word at work and OOffice at home?"
Open Office 2.0 has it's own file extensions but you can save them as .doc. If you save them as .doc or what ever the MS office is you can go back and forth. - tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Grammae checking is very complicated--with all the resources, Microsoft couldn't make a decent grammar checker.
So we have to do it manually. I would recommend the classic "Elements of Style" available for free online:
http://www.bartleby.com/141/
Buy a copy. It's just a few bucks. - krat3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0chriskzoo
"Does it still look like crap?"
I don't wich version you tested, but OpenOffice.org 2.0 looks great if you don't want to pay 200 $/€ for almost the same features. - tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The reason OOo doesn't have a grammar checker is because of Sun's licensing. There are open source grammar checkers out there---the latest version of Abiword has a grammar checker tool that uses an open source grammar engine underneath.
The same grammar engine can't be incorporated into OOo because of licensing. Think about it. - Gargot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0StarOffice 8 (based on OO.o 2.0) has been out for a couple of weeks. I have an educational license version and it works quite well.
- linuxbox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Java is horrible on Linux.
- EdHaber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The file size and date and time stamp is EXACTLY the same as the RC3 version. I haven't hashed them so i can't tell you if they are exactly the same. It looks like they took RC3 for the release. Or they just copied the newest RC into the stable directory.
-Ed - Veloxi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been using this all day instead of MS Office, and I'm really liking it so far.
- spyres, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0---The same grammar engine can't be incorporated into OOo because of licensing. Think about it.
Effective Sept. 5, 2005, Sun has recently changed the license of OO to LGPL and retired the older dual licensing scheme.
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/license-change.html
Think about it... :) - SDNick484, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm a senior engineer at UCSD and have been using OO as my only Office Suite for the last couple years. As to the poster who asked about resource usage, OO 1.1 ran fine on my IBM T21 P3-M 800, 256MB of RAM (this was in Fedora Core 1 & later 2, not Windows). I have tried StarOffice (both back in the day when it first camem out, and now since I can get it for free as a student), and I didn't find any significant advantages. I've been running RC1 of OO2 since summer and have only had 1 crash (I had saved my work, so it wasn't a major issue).
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0""""many people dont know what a predicate or preposition is and how a sentence shouldn't end with one.""""
Despite what people are saying, you can't end with a preposition. I don't know where there minds are at. ha ha.
Eric Wilson - EdHaber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ohh and you can tell openoffice to use M$ formats for the default save format if you need to be compatable with your office using friends.
Or you can just use opendocument and export it when you need to.
-Ed - Mike_N, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm a little worried about why this isn't on the official site yet. Is it possible that this is not the final but just another RC version?
- Snuffkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"anyone got a bittorrent link handy?"
Or...why not just use HTTP?
I mean, really. - SVPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now they just need to finish the OS X X11 version...
- republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Ohh and you can tell openoffice to use M$ formats for the default save format if you need to be compatible with your office using friends? Or you can just use open document and export it when you need to?"
Yes, you can choose to save your document in a variety of formats including .doc which micro$oft office uses. And you can open a variety of formats including the one listed above. Hopefully this answered your question. - sannin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been wanting to try OpenOffice for quite awhile, however, I'm curious as to how it compares with respect to using system resources against Office? I have the old MSOffice 2000 version and im using my old computer, ie. 1Ghz, 256mb ram etc....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ooh yeah pushed it over 1k diggs. its a great program also.
- ramsinks.com, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OOo>M$
- noamsml, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Does it still look like crap?"
Crap is in the eye of the beholder. OpenOffice.Org does, however, use widgets of the native operating environment (Windows, Gnome (GTK), Kde (QT3)). - nrbelex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ugggh - I installed OOo 2.0 RC3 yesterday. Are their any bug fixes worth uninstalling and reinstalling for?
- spin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Finally! I love open office, I get everyone i can to use it. It is just plain irresponsible to give Microsoft hundreds of dollars for their office product. Granted a very small group people need some of those more obscure/really advanced features. Most people/businesses do not.
- noodle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice, I prefer this to MS Office.
- robnoxious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Are the file extensions the same? .doc, .xls ... Can you go back and forth with these documents? Say I have word at work and OOffice at home?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Maybe they want to put it on the mirrors before they make an official announcement for it.
- kyle133, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Have a look at this...
http://www.milliondollarhero.com - icespide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0where is the mac version?
- edmicman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Does it have text-to-columns?
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice. I wish the Mac version could keep pace. Beggers can't be choosers, though...
- bnolsen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0anyone got a bittorrent link handy?
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