As of August 2008, the latest version is NeoOffice 2.2.5. While Aqua has narrowed the gap in the area of Mac look-and-feel, NeoOffice still includes numerous Mac-specific features and bugfixes missing from Aqua. Beginning with NeoOffice 2.1, NeoOffice also incorporated new features and bug-fixes from the odf-converter project and Novell's ooo-build version of for Linux. There are numerous improvements over the X11 version-native menus along the top menu bar, native OS X fonts, the print dialog screen you're used to seeing, scrollwheel support, traditional Mac shortcut keys, drag-and-drop, Aqua scrollbars, and so forth. Because Java is so well integrated into Mac OS X, NeoOffice feels much more "Mac-like" than the X11 version. The best, fastest, most Macintosh-like port to date, NeoOffice (formerly "NeoOffice/J"), uses bits of Java and Cocoa instead of X11 to display to the screen and bits of Cocoa and Carbon for other features like printing, menus, fonts, and Aqua widgets. Sun build an official Aqua 3.0 release in English for Intel-based Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5, but community builds are available for PowerPC Macs and other languages. is currently at version 3.0.īeginning with 3.0, Sun and engineers introduced an official native Mac OS X version, Aqua, and Sun released StarOffice 9 for Mac OS X (Intel) based on this version. The project provides the source code from which many other versions are derived, including Sun's proprietary StarOffice. (OOo) is the "main" office suite, written primarily for Solaris, Linux and Windows, with the most developers and users. 3.2 RetroOffice (discontinued late 2008).
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