RE: ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org Build 641B released for PPC Linux (fwd)

2001-12-06 Thread Jonathan Sailor

Mandrake Linux > They ment
MandrakeSoft   > They said

Never mind.

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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:39:31PM -0500, Jonathan Sailor wrote:
> Nor is there MandrakeSOFT Anything PPC.

Umm yes there is.  Mandrake 8.0/PPC.
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/range?wslang=en
It's the next to the last thing.

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Re: ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org Build 641B released for PPC Linux (fwd)

2001-12-05 Thread Ben Reser

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:39:31PM -0500, Jonathan Sailor wrote:
> Nor is there MandrakeSOFT Anything PPC.

Umm yes there is.  Mandrake 8.0/PPC.
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/range?wslang=en
It's the next to the last thing.

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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without
fighting." -Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu




RE: ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org Build 641B released for PPC Linux (fwd)

2001-12-05 Thread Jonathan Sailor

Nor is there MandrakeSOFT Anything PPC.

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On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Ryan Boder wrote:

> 
> I thought that there was no Mandrake 8.1 for PowerPC release?
> 
> 

There isn't - good catch ;^)


Stew Benedict

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Re: ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org Build 641B released for PPC Linux (fwd)

2001-12-04 Thread Stew Benedict


On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Ryan Boder wrote:

> 
> I thought that there was no Mandrake 8.1 for PowerPC release?
> 
> 

There isn't - good catch ;^)


Stew Benedict

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Re: ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org Build 641B released for PPC Linux (fwd)

2001-12-04 Thread Sylvain OBEGI

There is no, must be a typo

le mar 04-12-2001 à 19:11, Ryan Boder a écrit :
> 
> 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!
(...)
> > This includes YellowDogLinux 2.0 and 2.1, SuSE 7.3, MandrakeSoft 8.1, and
> > DebianPPC (has been tested under Debian Sid).

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Re: ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org Build 641B released for PPC Linux (fwd)

2001-12-04 Thread Ryan Boder


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]
>
>
>