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OpenOffice.org 2.4 releasedOpenOffice.org 2.4 releasedPosted Mar 30, 2008 14:19 UTC (Sun) by Kluge (subscriber, #2881)In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.4 released by cpeterso Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.4 released
I've been using OOo v2.3.1 on a new Mac running Leopard. Startup is slow (as is performance generally, compared to MS Office) and always gives an error message. For no apparent reason, it starts up a bash prompt. And the X11 interface is relatively clunky and ugly. But it does work. Then I recently downloaded OOo_2.4.0RC3_MacOSXIntel_install.dmg (I think from http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/OtherDownload....) and it works great. Startup is faster, look-n-feel is better. Unlike the official release of 2.4.0, which behaves just like 2.3.1. I suspect that the RC3 I have is a native (non-X11) build, although the official native snapshot build DEV300_m2 works very poorly for me. In short, I recommend going to http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/ and downloading the latest RC. For whatever reason, my experience with these builds has been much better than with the offical releases.
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