Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice 2.2 for openSUSE

LLLActive@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:16 +0200, Andreas wrote:

Is this the NOVELL-Fork of OOo or the release of the OOo project ?
I read somewhere NOVELL forked sometime ago to put in features that
won't get in the regular OOo build, like better file-filters for MS-Office.
Therefore the NOVELL thingy was not based on the most modern release.

Andreas

Yea, I remember reading about it as well. I thought that would be a good
reason to stick with the Novell 'thingy'. Or ... is/will it be such an
improvement?

How about installing both versions in parallel to test? Someone done
that yet?

I've downloaded and installed from here on openSUSE 10.2 and it's listed
as 2.1 built by Novell. As far as I'm aware the Novell additions to the
2.1 version, for SLED 10 SP1, were also in the RPMs on the site I listed
for SUSE 10.1/openSUSE 10.2). Mainly this is VBA macro support and has
passed back to openoffice.org for inclusion in the main releases. I'm
not certain but I think these contributions were scheduled for the
official openoffice.org 2.1 release.

And if that's not confusing enough, you can also download the
openoffice.org translators for MS Office OpenXML document types here:
http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?product_id=&search=Search&build_type=SDBuildBean&families=3402&version=&date_range=&keywords=&x=22&y=8

Hope this helps,
Jon
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