Go-oo
Go-oo is an open
source suite derived from the highly popular OpenOffice.org.
It includes patches that have been refused by
Sun Microsystems. It is important to appreciate that Go-oo is not
generally considered to be a
fork of OpenOffice.org
as it follows the same development path but
includes patches that have not (yet) been included in the
OpenOffice.org
build.
Some of the features and improvements have not been included
simply because of technical, business or legal reasons.
It is frequently forgotten that many popular Linux
distributions such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva, and Debian actually
ship with some of the patches provided by Go-oo and not just
vanilla OpenOffice.org.
Besides the benefits offered by additional
functionality (detailed below), Go-oo
has lower memory
requirements, it is quicker to start up, and more responsive in use for
some operations.
The development of Go-oo commenced in 2007.
Go-oo 3.1.1
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Price
Free to download
Size
13.4MB
License
GNU LGPL / CDDL
Developer
Free Software Community
Website
go-oo.org
System Requirements
Kernel version 2.4 or higher
glibc2 version 2.3.2 or higher
256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended)
400 MB hard disk space
X-Server with 1024 x 768 or higher resolution with at least 256 colours
GNOME 2.6
Support
Sites:
Planet
go-oo, Announcement
Mailing List
Selected
Reviews:
Dedoimedo
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Features include:
- Feature set of OpenOffice.org
- Improved startup performance
- Better support for Office Open XML file formats
- 3-D transition effects for presentations
- Rich fields support
- Nesting
- In-place editing
- Multiple fonts
- Nested conditionals
- Uses a combo box in place of the zoom button in stock
OpenOffice.org
- Lnear optimization solver
that can optimize a cell value based on
arbitrary constraints, built into Calc
- Improved interoperability with Excel
- Provides VBA macro support
- Allows UNO automation with
Mono
- Supports multimedia content using
the GStreamer multimedia framework
- Text Grid rendering
- SVP support
- Improved EMF rendering
- Support for MS-Works files, WordPerfect Graphics files,
Lotus Word Pro files
- Password protect XLS files
- Bundles the most useful OpenOffice.org extensions,
like presenter console, pdfimport, or presentation minimizer
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