Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

["Anthony W. Marino" <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,
I wasn't able to download the linux binaries from either coast..what about 
you?

Anthon

> Thanks for the heads up, I'm on my way to d'load it now.
>
> On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 13:31, Ron Cordell wrote:
> > In light of the recent discussions about reading/writing MS docs and
> > general office/prodctivity suites, I thought that I would report on the
> > latest OpenOffice release, 641D. This is the last release before
> > OpenOffice 1.0, and was just made available Friday.
> >
> > One of the biggest complaints has been how long it takes OpenOffice to
> > start up. That situation has been greatly improved. Total time to startup
> > the Word processor for OpenOffice has decreased from 20 seconds to 8
> > seconds on my machine.
> >
> > Until MS opens up their doc formats and conforms fully to an open XML
> > document specification, OpenOffice remains the best means of working with
> > complex MS docs that I have. It does very well at PowerPoint and Excel;
> > it is quite useable with complex Word docs as well.
> >
> > This is you last chance to use OO and submit requests for the 1.0
> > release. I encourage you to do so.
> >
> > -ronc
> >
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