I thought that there was no Mandrake 8.1 for PowerPC release?
Ryan Boder http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~rtb On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: > > Hi, > > The latest release of OpenOffice.org (build OO641B) for PPC Linux is now > available! > > OpenOffice.org is based on the same source tree (with a few minor > differences) as the upcoming StarOffice 6.0. It basically supplies an > almost drop in replacement for Microsoft Office (and is getting better > with every release). > > New in this release: > - lots of stability improvements and bug fixes > - now includes Mozilla 0.94 and higher AddressBook support > > For more information including the full source code check out the > OpenOffice.org website: > > http://www.openoffice.org > > This binary should run on any ppc linux system with glibc 2.2.1 or higher, > XFree86 4.0 or higher, etc. > > This includes YellowDogLinux 2.0 and 2.1, SuSE 7.3, MandrakeSoft 8.1, and > DebianPPC (has been tested under Debian Sid). > > PLEASE NOTE: If you have the URW fonts installed, please upgrade them to > the very latest versions from your distribution type (copies of the RedHat > RawHide urw-fonts src and noarch rpms are available on the download sites) > since older URW fonts have some minor corruption that can make OpenOffice > anti-aliased text segfault (and yes we are working on making freetype much > more robust to corrupt Type 1 font data). > > The new home for PPC Linux OpenOffice.org releases is: > > ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/ > > With mirrors at: > > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/powerpc/openoffice/641b/ > > http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ > > Thank you Dan Burcaw (YDL) for providing a new home of the PPC Linux > OpenOffice.org project. And thanks to Olaf Hering ( of SuSE) and Stew > Benedict (of Mandrakesoft) for graciously providing mirror locations. > > Please support our PPC Linux distributions and buy the latest > distributions, they are helping to bring great new software to you! > > Thanks, > > Kevin Hendricks > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
