Open Office 2? How long has that been out?

Ilander · 03-22-2005, 12:25 PM

Okay, so Open Office 2 is now available in Beta form, so it's not technically "out" yet...but it's available, and that's what counts.

Who all uses OO? Personally I love it...it can do almost everything MS Office can, without the amazing, shaft-o-matic pricing...plus it has gobs upon gobs of compatibility.

oh, and

www.openoffice.org

philip · 03-22-2005, 12:37 PM

I tried to install it but they only distributed it in .rpm for linux

I tried to change it to debian packages but I got errors after installing then. So I just wait till it's in the debian packages. Or I try to get it working in slackware but I don't know. It was an error with missing files and that seems to be on OO's side not mine.

I don't know if I'll like it. I hope it has better .doc formatting when I open word docs. I didn't really like the idea that it's going to look exactly like word either. But well, it's the best out there for linux.

shamrock_uk · 03-22-2005, 12:40 PM

Its still not that good

Don't even bother with Powerpoint presentations, and complex Word documents are still rendered absolutely hopelessly.

Was hoping for a bigger jump than this, although it does look much nicer and appears to have a smaller memory footprint.

One of my friends also reports that for some reason it takes down the operating system completely on his Linux box when it freezes on him

philip · 03-22-2005, 01:06 PM

I hope he has filed a bug report then cause it's still a beta.

shamrock_uk · 03-22-2005, 01:54 PM

I did tell him to, whether he has the time or can be bothered is another matter! He's pretty hacked off with the whole Linux experience at the moment, but I shall pester him [img]smile.gif[/img]

03-22-2005, 12:25 PM	#1
Ilander 20th Level Warrior Join Date: December 28, 2003 Location: Kentucky Age: 39 Posts: 2,820	Okay, so Open Office 2 is now available in Beta form, so it's not technically "out" yet...but it's available, and that's what counts. Who all uses OO? Personally I love it...it can do almost everything MS Office can, without the amazing, shaft-o-matic pricing...plus it has gobs upon gobs of compatibility. oh, and www.openoffice.org __________________ Is that what you really want to say?

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03-22-2005, 12:37 PM	#2
philip Galvatron Join Date: June 24, 2002 Location: aa Posts: 2,101	I tried to install it but they only distributed it in .rpm for linux I tried to change it to debian packages but I got errors after installing then. So I just wait till it's in the debian packages. Or I try to get it working in slackware but I don't know. It was an error with missing files and that seems to be on OO's side not mine. I don't know if I'll like it. I hope it has better .doc formatting when I open word docs. I didn't really like the idea that it's going to look exactly like word either. But well, it's the best out there for linux.

03-22-2005, 12:40 PM	#3
shamrock_uk Dracolich Join Date: January 24, 2004 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 3,092	Its still not that good Don't even bother with Powerpoint presentations, and complex Word documents are still rendered absolutely hopelessly. Was hoping for a bigger jump than this, although it does look much nicer and appears to have a smaller memory footprint. One of my friends also reports that for some reason it takes down the operating system completely on his Linux box when it freezes on him

03-22-2005, 01:06 PM	#4
philip Galvatron Join Date: June 24, 2002 Location: aa Posts: 2,101	I hope he has filed a bug report then cause it's still a beta.

03-22-2005, 01:54 PM	#5
shamrock_uk Dracolich Join Date: January 24, 2004 Location: UK Age: 42 Posts: 3,092	I did tell him to, whether he has the time or can be bothered is another matter! He's pretty hacked off with the whole Linux experience at the moment, but I shall pester him [img]smile.gif[/img]

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