Macworld shares the happy OO news.
Microsoft Office alternative, OpenOffice, will ship in a native version for OS X next month.
You have NO IDEA how happy this makes me. It’s soo difficult for me to run OO on my mac, because NeoOffice and running X11 take up too many resources and slow everything down. NeoOffice is really buggy for me and has been both when I was using Tiger and Panther. It was just awful. Friends have tried to help me, have told me to stop complaining and buy some $20 word processor… no one seemed to understand my pain.
I’ve blogged about my wordprocessor pain before and it resulted in some big discussion, which basically added up to “you’re screwed because no one writes FOSS for OSX.
Well, I needed free, I needed open source, and I needed it to be stable. I especially needed this as an English major. And next month, I’ll finally have it!
Well, I wish this’d been released a few months ago. :) Sure would have helped… haha.
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Sorry to disappoint you, but some News sites picked up on the situation wrong. We still have another month or two before we have a alpha version (End December 2006). The alpha will be released when some major bugs are fixed.
Depending on how much support we get to help with maintaining the current X11 version and porting it over to Aqua, will depend on how long it takes to get it ready. We are all volunteers with other jobs in real life.
Hey Shaun, Thanks for visiting!
Yeah, it seems that the news wasn’t totally accurate, considering it’s now 2007.
My enthusiasm and excitement for a native OSX OO.org is still strong.
I wish I could do something to help out. But I can’t program, and my full time job (on a windows machine) doesn’t let me do much beta testing or bug reporting.
I totally know what you mean about being volunteers. You all work so hard and I’m glad for what’s out there currently!
Hi Emily,
Thanks for passing by and letting me know.
You’ve just given me an idea for my next blog post.
Time for some sleep now ;-)
woo woo.
Well, you’ve got a new reader, that’s for sure. :)
Take care!
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