[discuss] ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org 1.0.0 is released for PPC Linux

[Louis Suarez-Potts]

Kevin,
I'll update the download page as soon as I can.
Louis  

on 5/1/02 3:17 PM, Kevin B. Hendricks at kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The official 1.0.0 release of OpenOffice.org for PPC Linux is now
> available!  
> 
> OpenOffice.org basically supplies an almost drop in
> replacement for Microsoft Office (and is getting better with every
> release).
> 
> 
> New in this release
> ----------------------
> - new hyphenator
> 
> - new "install" script to make installation easier
> 
> - lots of stability improvements and bug fixes
> 
> - improved KDE and GNOME desktop integration
> 
> - lots of new dictionaries available from:
> http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html
> 
> For more information including the full source code/ release notes / FAQs,
> etc check out the OpenOffice.org website:    http://www.openoffice.org
> 
> 
> System Requirements
> ------------------------
> 
> - any ppc linux system with glibc 2.2.X or higher,
> - XFree86 4.0 or higher
> - 200 meg of free disk space
> 
> This includes YellowDogLinux 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2, SuSE 7.3 and higher,
> MandrakeSoft  8.1, 8.2 Beta and Debian PPC.  If you have success with any
> other PPC distributions, please let me know.
> 
> 
> Installation Instructions
> -------------------------
> Please read the OOo_1.0.0_README for complete install
> instructions (installation is very different from most unix programs).
> If you run into trouble there is now a full OOo_install_guide.pdf
> to help.
> 
> Download Locations
> -----------------------
> The home for PPC Linux OpenOffice.org releases is:
> 
> ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/
> 
> Graciously mirrored at:
> 
> http://ftp.penguinppc.org/projects/openoffice/
> ftp://ftp.penguinppc.org/projects/openoffice/
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/powerpc/openoffice/release-1.0.0/
> 
> Please let me know if you can/will mirror this release/
> 
> 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 Jeramy
> Smith for (penguinppc.org) for graciously providing download locations for
> this (and earlier releases!).
> 
> 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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