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NeoOffice for OS X Gets Working Port
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
October 7th 2002
Mm...7.5 million lines of code.
NeoOffice is now up and running, but is alpha-quality software at present. The
O'Reilley Network provides an interesting rundown of how such a huge application
(240MB) was ported to OS X.
You can even download a development version (77MB) or request a CD, but be warned:
the app is not at all stable at present and needs a lot of work before it's ready for
prime time.
The development version of NeoOffice has the following system requirements:
In order to run NeoOffice binaries, you will need:
� MacOS X 10.2 or higher, 10.2.1 recommended
� 384 MB memory
� 230 MB free disk space
� G4 recommended
� lotsa patience...it's slow and crashes a lot!
In order to build NeoOffice binaries, you will need
� MacOS X 10.2 or higher, 10.2.1 recommended
� 384 MB memory
� 2 GB free disk space
� fastest machine you can get recommended
� even more patience...it can take a day!
It's worth reading over the significant known issues on the download page.
Analysis: Worth a read, even from a layperson's point of view, just to get some
insight into how Unix apps are ported to OS X and how an Aqua interface is put on the
front end. Gotta admire these guys' efforts.
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