The openSUSE Build Service repository for OpenOffice Unstable has received OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, build 9319. I’m not sure if this is the final build from OpenOffice.org, as their release schedule doesn’t have a final target date for 3.2 release, due to the Holiday’s.
But the above package is available, and I’ve installed and it’s working very well.
Major Features and Moto from OpenOffice.org:
release motto “Performance”
QA tracked
Performance improvements

OpenOffice.org startup [ continue reading... ]

Have you gotten the itch to install OpenOffice.org 3.1? Are you running openSUSE? Well you’re in luck. The openSUSE Build Service has had the OpenOffice beta packages for a bit in their UNSTABLE OpenOffice Build Service.
Wonder what OpenOffice.org 3.1 will bring and why it’s a much anticipated release? Here’s some snippit’s from the oooninja.com:
Antialiased drawings
By far, the most requested feature in this release is [ continue reading... ]

OpenOffice 3.0.1 has been released recently and with the 3.0.1 release we got an important feature. That feature is grammar checking. In the enterprise space, this is very important to have another real time method of spell / grammar checking.
With that said, you’re probably wondering how to get it?
Setup the repository (if you don’t have it already)
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.1/ OpenOffice\ Stable
Now make [ continue reading... ]

The bug in openoffice that shipped with opensuse Beta4 has been fixed and an update has been released to the 11.1 update repository.
If you have 11.1 Beta4 installed and don’t have the update repository you can add by running:
sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/ openSUSE\ 11.1\ Updates
Then just run:
sudo zypper up -y
And you should be good..
Wish it would have shipped WITH Beta4, hopefully [ continue reading... ]

This is just a quick reminder to people that are considering the upgrade from 11.1 B3, or 11.X to 11.1 Beta4 that openoffice is broken.
So if you rely on openoffice and this is a production box, to not upgrade until RC1.