After a lengthy development cycle, we have a shiny new version of OpenOffice.org to play around with. But has it been worth the wait? Neil Bothwick rolls up his sleeves and picks apart OOo 3.0's new features, finding out whether it deserves a major version number bump and finally sorts out the performance woes...
After the well-received release of Firefox 3, it's time for another major update in the FOSS world - and this time it's OpenOffice.org. OOo 3.0 has arrived and there are three key questions to be answered here: what new features does it introduce, it is any faster and is it worth of the full version number jump?
Installing was easy enough after downloading the Debian or RPM files from download.openoffice.org. These are compressed tar archives: unpack one to find several .deb or .rpm files for installation. These install OpenOffice.org 3 into /opt, whereas many distros install 2.4 in /usr, which means you can have both versions installed and switch between them.
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