Subject: ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org Build 638C released for PPC Linux
From: Kevin B. Hendricks (khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 14:06:27 MDT
Hi,
Just wanted everyone to know that the very latest release of
OpenOffice.org Build 638c is now available. It is based on the exact same
source tree (with a few minor differences) as the just released StarOffice
6.0 Beta (announced by Sun yesterday). OpenOffice.org basically supplies
an almost drop in replacement for Microsoft Office (and is getting better
with every release).
New in this release:
- greatly improved stability
- both spell checking and thesaurus in English
- full online help now available
This should run on any ppc linux system with glibc 2.2.1 or higher,
XFree86 4.0 or higher, etc.
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).
Our new home is:
ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/
With mirrors at:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/powerpc/openoffice/638c/
http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/
Thank you Dan (YDL) for providing a new home of the ppc linux
OpenOffice.org project. And thanks to Olaf ( of SuSE) and Stew (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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