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OpenOSX Updates Office, Grass for Leopard

OpenOSX Updates Office, Grass for Leopard

by , 10:45 AM EST, November 12th, 2007

OpenOSX announced the immediate availability of OpenOSX Office 2.0 and OpenOSX GrassPro 6.2.1 on Monday. The updates improve support for X11 and Mac OS X 10.5.

OpenOSX Office 2.0 is an office productivity application suite based on the open source GNOME Office. It includes Gnumeric, and Excel compatible spreadsheet app; AbiWord, a Word compatible word processor; the vector-based image editing application Inkscape; the flowchart application Diagram; and the Gnucash personal and small business financial management application.

OpenOSX GrassPro 2.6.1 is a Geographic Information System (GIS) application built on the open source Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, or GRASS.

OpenOSX Office 2.0 is priced at US$30 as an electronic download, or $40 on CD. OpenOSX GrassPro costs $50 as a download, or $60 on CD. The updated for both application suites are available as free downloads from the OpenOSX Web site.

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Close Name:Guest
Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:37 pm Subject:

Too bad it still uses X11, is there a native Aqua port in the works? Both KOffice and OpenOffice.org are taking that route, i hope OpenOSX will too.


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Close Name:geoduck Posts: 1922 Joined: 30 Dec 2003
Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:36 pm Subject:

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Too bad it still uses X11, is there a native Aqua port in the works? Both KOffice and OpenOffice.org are taking that route, i hope OpenOSX will too.

NeoOffice (http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php) is a port of Open Office and I believe it runs native so it would not require X11.


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