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OpenOffice.org 2.4 released

OpenOffice.org 2.4 released

Posted 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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