Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, OpenOffice.org, Open Source
Go-OO: Stick a fork in it
by Ian Dumych May 30th 2008
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.
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!