Doug Thompson wrote: > Graham Davis wrote: >> Fred A. Miller wrote: >> >> >>>On Sunday 07 August 2005 1:47 am, Greg Madden wrote: >>> >>>>>So, will 2.0 be worth the wait or should I just download 1.14 now? >>>> >>>>My $.02, I use the latest 2.0 beta on a Linux box, and have never had >>>>any problems. This is on my business workstation and laptop, it is >>>>important that it just works. I like it much better than the 1.x >>>>series, of course, YMMV :-) >>> >>>Agreed. >>> >> >> >> I've also been using 2.0 beta (1.9.79.2.3) and have stuck with it. I've >> had a few crashes and, on one occasion the recovery didn't work properly >> - my fault I think - and lost a fortnight's entries on one file. I'd been >> relying on autosave and OOo's backup copies and found to my cost that >> neither seemed to have worked. Since then I've saved by hand frequently. >> >> Graham >> > > The 1.9.79 beta candidate is very old. A few months ago when all the > linux distros were getting the 2.8.xx kernel packages ready, it was > expected to be really close to the final product and was thus included > in the applications. I just upgraded to SuSE 9.3 and the first thing I > did was update OOo to m118. No lockups, no lost data, no problems. You > might want to consider doing the same. >
I've just got on to broadband so I tried to download the latest version yesterday but the first few download sites I tried either didn't exist or didn't have the latest update. I decided to wait another day or two before trying again. Graham --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
