Announcing: OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 for PPC Linux What is it? -------------- OpenOffice.org provides a free (source LGPL and no $) almost drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office and is available for Solaris (Sparc and x86), Linux (x86 and PPC), WIN (NT, 200, XP, 98, 95, etc), and coming real soon now (RSN) for FreeBSD, NetBSD, Irix, and Mac OSX. It provides almost transparent file access to Microsoft Office files. Please see http://www.openoffice.org for more info and additional download sites for major platforms. PPC Linux specific download sites are provided below. What's New in This Release? ------------------------------ - built using gcc-3.1.1 pre - improved font handling - new shared dictionary support - user-installed hyphenation dictionaries now possible - huge number of bug fixes and stability improvments For a more complete listing of fixed bugs: http://tools.openoffice.org/releases/changelog.html This version should work on stock Debian, SuSE 7.3, YDL 2.2 and YDL 2.3, and almost any other PPC Linux distribution using at least glibc 2.2.1. Please Note: Debian users may want to use the official Debian builds which include better desktop integration for Debian users and have been built and tested on Debian systems (although this version will work too) DISCLAIMER -------------- This is the usual disclaimer. OOo 1.0.1 should be a rock steady release but please don't complain if you loose everything! I use it constantly and have not experienced any problems but I can make no guarantees. If interested, you can build your own binary direct from source. (see below). Please check out http://www.openoffice.org for more info on the OpenOffice.org project What's Available (English Only)? ---------------------------------- - OOo_1.0.1c_LinuxPPC_installer.tar.gz md5sum: 432cf242c085fb3a3675779b393ed2b4 64939379 bytes - OpenOffice_README.ppclinux inside the installer is a complete installation/setup guide in pdf format. Where can I download it? --------------------------- ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/ ftp://ftp.suse/com/pub/projects/powerpc/openoffice/ ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/linuxppc/ And it is available from up-to-date YellowDog Linux Mirrors: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/resources/ftp_mirrors.shtml Hopefully it will appear on penguinppc.org sites soon. Building your own from Source ---------------------------------- Building your own OOo binary is not for the faint hearted and takes at least 2 gig of free disk space and up to date tools. If you are interested in building your own version direct from source, please contact me and I will try to provide you with and recent or nedded patches and some short build instructions. Right now the build of 1.0.1 requires gcc 3.X. Thanks, Kevin B. Hendricks kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca