Go-OO 2.4.1.5
Posted by Mihai Asmanow on 15 June 2008 - 18:59 · 10 comments & 8825 views
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#1 Posted by night_stalker_z on 15 Jun 2008 - 22:48
- Anyone used this yet?
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#2 Posted by ajua on 16 Jun 2008 - 00:09
- i just downloaded it to try it and see what the differences from the official release are.
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#3 Posted by +Kushan on 16 Jun 2008 - 00:20
- This reads less like "here's a good product that we made" and more like "oo.o is ****, ours is better". A little too arrogant, there.
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#3.1 Posted by Jotnar on 16 Jun 2008 - 02:21
- Oh I think its generally deserved. It starts up super fast after the first start. It certainly faster than the stock OpenOffice.org. I think most of the 'extras' this provides are finally being integrated into OpenOffice.org 3.0. This 'enhanced' version of OpenOffice.org has been around for awhile though...maybe a year or so? I think thats about how long I've been using it.
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#4 Posted by [deXter] on 16 Jun 2008 - 09:11
- 130 MB is a bit too much.. anyone know of a smaller office suite, which one can carry around on a small USB stick?
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#4.1 Posted by Alex Bishop on 16 Jun 2008 - 11:59
- Go to www.portableapps.com and try out abiword portable.
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#4.2 Posted by night_stalker_z on 17 Jun 2008 - 12:37
- GNOME Office is quite small but you have to get the applications separately.
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#5 Posted by Angel Blue01 on 17 Jun 2008 - 17:40
- How is it compared to Novell's OOo?
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#5.1 Posted by night_stalker_z on 19 Jun 2008 - 15:18
- It's the same thing.
- Better interoperability
Compared with up-stream OO.o, it has better Microsoft binary file support (with eg. fields support), and it will import WordPerfect graphics beautifully. If you are reliant on Excel VBA macros - then Go-oo offers the best macro fidelity too. If you expect your spreadsheets to calculate compatibly, or you get embedded Visio diagrams in your documents, you'll want Go-oo.
- Better functionality
Go-oo's user interface is more familiar, with lots of small pieces of polish. We have built-in (working) multimedia integration on Linux, a beautiful solver component, and your Chinese should look sane. We also integrate with your system better by default: eg. enabling native file-selectors on Linux.
- A Faster application
From first-time startup, where we sort I/O to reduce seek cost, to a highly optimised second start application and a systray quick-starter on Linux we are faster. We use less memory than up-stream, we link faster, use better system allocators, and don't waste so much time & memory in the registry. Go-oo performance is hard to beat.