2008/10/10 Julio Sotolongo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > M Henri Day wrote: > >> 2008/10/10 Dan Klinglesmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >>> On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:23 PM, M Henri Day wrote: >>> >>> 2008/10/10 Julio Sotolongo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> >>>> Has 3.0 been released? It is listed on this site, but not on the >>>> official >>>> >>>> >>>>> ooo site. >>>>> http://www.filehippo.com/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Looks like it - are we always the last to know ?... >>>> >>>> Henri >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> OOo 3.0 is still in Beta. It has not been released as of yet. word on the >>> street is it should be final later this month. >>> >>> the latest Release Candidate is OOo 3.0rc4 which is available from the >>> link >>> above as well as http://www.openoffice.org. >>> >>> >> >> >> Dan, if you look more closely at the web page to which Julio provides a >> link, I think you will discover that, in addition to the RC4 (which is >> placed in the list of «Old Versions», FileHippo offers readers a download >> of >> what they call «OpenOffice.org 3.0.0». If one clicks the download button, >> one is invited to save a «OOo_3.0.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe» file to >> one's machine.... >> >> Henri >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > I downloaded the file and attempted to install it. The options during the > install process were modify, repair, or uninstall. > The news page for ooo has this headline: > > > OpenOffice.org 3.0 Launch Party in Paris on October 13th. > > Maybe on Monday... > > -- > Julio Sotolongo
Thanks for the report, Julio - I was running Ubuntu Intrepid on my AMD 64 X2 maschine when I saw your posting and thus couldn't do more than check what FileHippo was offering. Looks like they jumped the gun on this one.... Henri
