ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org Build 641B released for PPC Linux


Subject: ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org Build 641B released for PPC Linux
From: Kevin B. Hendricks (kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca)
Date: Tue Dec 04 2001 - 06:54:01 MST


Hi,

The latest release of OpenOffice.org (build OO641B) for PPC Linux is now
available!

OpenOffice.org is based on the same source tree (with a few minor
differences) as the upcoming StarOffice 6.0. It basically supplies an
almost drop in replacement for Microsoft Office (and is getting better
with every release).

New in this release:
- lots of stability improvements and bug fixes
- now includes Mozilla 0.94 and higher AddressBook support

For more information including the full source code check out the
OpenOffice.org website:

http://www.openoffice.org

This binary should run on any ppc linux system with glibc 2.2.1 or higher,
XFree86 4.0 or higher, etc.

This includes YellowDogLinux 2.0 and 2.1, SuSE 7.3, MandrakeSoft 8.1, and
DebianPPC (has been tested under Debian Sid).

PLEASE NOTE: If you have the URW fonts installed, please upgrade them to
the very latest versions from your distribution type (copies of the RedHat
RawHide urw-fonts src and noarch rpms are available on the download sites)
since older URW fonts have some minor corruption that can make OpenOffice
anti-aliased text segfault (and yes we are working on making freetype much
more robust to corrupt Type 1 font data).

The new home for PPC Linux OpenOffice.org releases is:

ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/

With mirrors at:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/powerpc/openoffice/641b/

http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/

Thank you Dan Burcaw (YDL) for providing a new home of the PPC Linux
OpenOffice.org project. And thanks to Olaf Hering ( of SuSE) and Stew
Benedict (of Mandrakesoft) for graciously providing mirror locations.

Please support our PPC Linux distributions and buy the latest
distributions, they are helping to bring great new software to you!

Thanks,

Kevin Hendricks
kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca



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