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| <p class="Header">MAC OS X PORT OF OPENOFFICE.ORG FOR X11 IS NOW OFFICIALLY |
| GOLDEN MASTER</p> |
| <p>The community-built port of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS |
| X (X11) is now officially Golden Master (GM). </p> |
| <p>June 2003 - The Openoffice.org community (www.openoffice.org) |
| today announced the Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 for X11. The release |
| is ready for immediate download by all Mac OS X users from OpenOffice.org |
| (<a href="//">www.openoffice.org</a>).</p> |
| <p>The code for this port has been in development by the |
| community since April 2001, when the code base was released to the open-source |
| community by Sun Microsystems, Inc. This release uses the X Windows System, |
| common to Unix and Unix-like machines; X Windows from the open-source project |
| XFree86.org (<a href="http://www.xfree86.org/">www.xfree86.org</a>) is included |
| in the installation set. Users may also download the free beta X11 for Mac |
| OS from Apple (<a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/">www.apple.com/macosx/x11/</a>). |
| OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X (X11) takes advantage of the popularity of X11 |
| in the open-source world and incorporates FreeType's font engine, producing |
| clean, smooth, anti-aliased fonts (see <a href="http://www.freetype.org/">www.freetype.org</a>). |
| The result is a sophisticated integration with the Mac OS X, making this |
| release suitable for |
| all.</p> |
| <p>Dan Williams, who along with Ed Peterlin is a key developer |
| of the build, points out that, "Anti-aliasing is more than an aesthetic |
| convenience. It makes presentations and all other documents look highly professional. |
| This is one feature that now makes OpenOffice.org look exceptional on Mac |
| OS X."</p> |
| <p>OpenOffice.org can open and save as Microsoft Office |
| documents, allowing for heterogeneous office environments (Windows, Linux, |
| Mac OS X), and runs stably and natively on multiple platforms, including |
| Linux, PPC Linux, Solaris, Windows and other flavors of Unix. The Mac OS |
| X developer release uses a ZeroG installer (<a href="http://www.zerog.com/">www.ZeroG.com</a>. The OpenOffice.org |
| community wishes to thank ZeroG in this key contribution to delivering |
| this port).</p> |
| <p>"This release is a triumph not only for Ed Peterlin, |
| Dan Williams, and other contributors with the Mac OS X porting team, but |
| for the collaboration between the open-source community and enterprises such |
| as Sun and Apple," said OpenOffice.org Community Manager Louis Suarez-Potts. "OpenOffice.org |
| 1.0 is the best open-source office suite there is. It does everything you |
| need and frees you from lock-in and licensing fees. With this release, all |
| Mac OS X users can now enjoy the freedom of OpenOffice.org 1.0."</p> |
| <p>Developers interested in contributing to OpenOffice.org |
| can find the tools and resources on the OpenOffice.org Mac site (http://mac.openoffice.org/). |
| Work is continuing both to track future releases of OpenOffice, as well as |
| to integrate better with Apple's native Aqua environment.</p> |
| <p class="Header">About OpenOffice.org</p> |
| <p>OpenOffice.org is the home of the open source project |
| and its community of developers and users. It is sponsored by Sun Microsystems |
| and hosted by <a href="http://www.collab.net/">CollbaNet</a>, which created |
| the collaborative environment making OpenOffice.org possible. |
| The mission of OpenOffice.org is to create, as a community, the leading international |
| office suite that will run on all major |
| platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component |
| based APIs and an XML-based file format. OpenOffice.org 1.0 is written in |
| C++ and has documented API's licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public |
| License (LGPL) and Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) open source |
| licenses.</p> |
| <p>OpenOffice.org is the largest open source project with |
| over 7.5 million lines of code and a community numbering 100,000 and growing. |
| To date, more than 16 million downloads of OpenOffice.org have taken place.</p> |
| <p>*Copyright The OpenOffice.org community</p> |
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