OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 released [LWN.net]

From:		Louis Suarez-Potts <luispo-AT-gmail.com>
To:		announce-AT-openoffice.org, users-AT-openoffice.org, dev-AT-openoffice.org
Subject:		[pr] FINAL: OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Is Here.... And It's Our Birthday!
Date:		Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:57:20 -0400
Cc:		discuss-AT-openoffice.org, dev-AT-native-lang.openoffice.org
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

All,

This is Friday 13 October and the day marks two important events: the  
immediate availability of OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 and our sixth  
anniversary.

First things first.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 is ready for download now. It is a significant  
release and recommended for all. As with all OpenOffice.org releases,  
it runs natively on Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X (X11) and many  
other platforms; and it probably runs in your language. Check with  
your favourite Native Language Project to see if the application is  
available today.

New features, bugfixes, and improvements include:

* Enhanced PDF management
* Direct export to LaTex
* Nested queries in Base
* New functionality in Calc and Impress
* Mac OS X (X11) uses system fonts
* And a lot more...

But the most important is our improved use of extensions. We've been  
very busy here, and have succeeded in making it easier for developers  
of any level to create extensions (aka "packages") for  
OpenOffice.org. With 2.0.4, a new door to the future is opened:  
Developers everywhere are invited to start writing extensions! To  
learn more, visit our Extensions Project, http:// 
extensions.openoffice.org/.

Download the application now, start using it immediately, and write  
extensions tomorrow.

* Download: http://downloads.openoffice.org/2.0.4/
* Release Notes: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.0.4.html

And now our anniversary.

Six years ago today, OpenOffice.org was launched as an open-source  
project. Wikipedia [0] has an excellent timeline, and in the last  
OOoCon we presented on the State of the Project [1], but the basic  
fact is that in the last six years we have helped shape a new world.  
Tens of millions of people use OpenOffice.org daily; governments have  
or are considering mandating it or its open-standard file format, the  
OpenDocument format, or ODF; and all have saved hundreds of millions  
of dollars and taken significant steps to ensuring that data is not  
lost to proprietary technologies. No small accomplishment.

If you want to participate in this huge and peaceful movement for a  
better world, join us, spread the word, help us and yourself out.

Build your world with OpenOffice.org.


-The OpenOffice.org Team


[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
[1] http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/state_of_the_project_...




About OpenOffice.org

The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and
sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading
open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®.

OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office
Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) as well as  
legacy industry
file formats and is available on major computing platforms in over 65
languages. OpenOffice.org is provided under the GNU Lesser General
Public Licence (LGPL).

The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a
number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor  
and
primary contributor.


Links

The OpenOffice.org Project can be found at http://www.openoffice.org
The OpenOffice.org office productivity suite may be downloaded free of
charge from http://download.openoffice.org
Further information about the suite may be found at
http://www.openoffice.org/product

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OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 released

Posted Oct 13, 2006 17:42 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

There's a lot of free software from the 80's still in use: GCC, vi and Emacs, and many of the basic Unix utilities are that old.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 released

Posted Oct 13, 2006 18:26 UTC (Fri) by branden (subscriber, #7029) [Link]

There's a lot of free software from the 80's still in use: GCC, vi and Emacs, and many of the basic Unix utilities are that old.

And the X Window System...

OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 released

Posted Oct 13, 2006 21:32 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Emacs, Vi (or rather ViM) and even GCC evolved - today's versions are quite different from version from 80's. TeX is still the same. I have mixed feelings about this: it means program is very-very good (and that's true) but it also means it has a lot of unfixed ugly bugs/features (and that's also true)...

Yes, I know that "TeX is bug-free". And while it's not 100% true it's almost true - if you consider only coding bugs. All if it's strange and stupid cases are documented thus they are not considered bugs - but they are still annoying...

Compatibility

Posted Oct 16, 2006 5:35 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

TeX is still the same. I have mixed feelings about this: it means program is very-very good (and that's true) but it also means it has a lot of unfixed ugly bugs/features (and that's also true)...

It also means that old TeX documents can be formatted in newer TeX releases without having to modify them, a significant advantage. (Although I have occasionally had to slightly change some old docs because of changes in the LaTeX macro package).