Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, OpenOffice.org, Open Source
Go-OO: Stick a fork in it
by Ian Dumych May 30th 2008 at 10:00AM
Go-OO is a fork of OpenOffice that has quite a few impressive features which really ought to be in official OO, but for some reason or another aren't, such as support for OpenXML, better Microsoft Binary support, and Word Perfect Graphics support. It also boasts significantly better start times -- at least on our poorly equipped test machine.
Long story short, this is a fast, lean beast of an office suite with great compatibilty with Microsoft Office. The price is right at $0.00, but as with any community project you are both welcome and encouraged to donate to the developers for their efforts.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jonathan Harford said 11:02AM on 5-30-2008
Forking a huge project like OO.o clearly takes a lot of effort. I'm very curious to know what's driving these intrepid ameliorators!
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Jonathan Harford said 11:06AM on 5-30-2008
Aha!
Jonathan Harford said 11:07AM on 5-30-2008
*cough*
Aha!
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/10/michael_meeks_on_sun_and_openo_1.html
Insomnious said 6:44AM on 5-31-2008
Hmm, I may be tempted with OpenXML support, but I think everyone who uses Office 07 has realised they should steer clear and just save as .doc or .rtf.
Hopefully they'll sort out this support for OpenOffice 3 (and actually get it working).
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conor said 9:57AM on 6-01-2008
.docx has a cooler icon though!