The OpenOffice.org organisation has announced the
immediate availability of the 1.1.2 version of the open source
office suite, codenamed Hakone, which will initially be available
on the Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), GNU/Linux (X86 and PowerPC) and
Solaris (Sparc and X86) platforms.
In addition to English, builds for Czech, Danish, French, German,
Japanese and Slovak are immediately available, with other locations
following shortly.
The organisation said that this release demonstrates the resolve of
the OpenOffice.org community to continuously improve and expand the
functionality of the suite - arriving less than three months after
version 1.1.1.
OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 introduces the FontOOo Autopilot, which
downloads and installs fonts from various sources. In addition, it
said, this release provides improved support for dBase database
files, additional language support, and improved XML export
facilities.
The suite, according to the terms of its Open Source licences (LGPL
& SISSL), is free for all to use, improve, modify and to
redistribute to anyone.
The organisation notes that the suite and its source code can be
downloaded or obtained from one of the CD-Rom distributors.
Free end-user support for OpenOffice.org is provided by the
community through mailing lists, forums and Internet Relay Chat
(IRC) channels. Commercial support is also provided by Sun
Microsystems and other organisations.
The annual OpenOffice.org conference will be held at Humboldt
University, Berlin, from 24 September.
Written by
Computing SA staff
