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OpenOSX Office 1.5 Available Now SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(OPENOSX-COM)--Sep. 7th, 2004-- OpenOSX today announced the immediate availability of Office 1.5 for Mac OS X "Panther" that is a easy-to-use solution for configuring, installing and utilizing the proven open source "GNOME Office" software, offering users a wealth of productivity software. This newest edition delivers enhanced integration with Mac OS X, completely new and updated software, improved installation along with additional features and enhancements. GNOME is a popular free desktop environment included with many distributions of Linux including RedHat. Mac OS X includes its own desktop environment and does not include the exhaustive list of support libraries required to run "GNOME Office". OpenOSX has built these dependent libraries and customized them for Mac OS X installed by a single-click installation and backed with support. In the process OpenOSX married the GNOME environment with Mac OS X offering native functionality including preferred web browser support, Print Center support, linkable files and for the first time, an all new "OpenOSX Office" cocoa application that enables system-wide recognition of supported file types including Microsoft� Word and Excel documents. This allows any of the many supported file types to be opened in the appropriate software by double-clicking or dragging files to its icon. Featured in the OpenOSX package is "Gnumeric" which reads and writes Microsoft� Excel files complete with 100% of functions of Microsoft� Excel, "AbiWord" which is an award winning open source alternative to Microsoft� Word which reads and writes Microsoft Word documents, SodiPodi which is a powerful Vector image manipulation program and Diagram, complete flexible flowchart software. "To my knowledge there simply is not a faster or easier way possible to get similar functionality installed in Mac OS X." said Jeshua Lacock, the owner of OpenOSX. "In the same time it takes to copy 480 megabytes to your hard disk, you can be running this awesome suite, complete with our exclusive 'OpenOSX Office' application." The OpenOSX Office product is available immediately for us$40 on CD-ROM, with download-only delivery available for us$30, upgrades from previous versions of the product are us$20 on CD-ROM and us$15 for download. OpenOSX also has complementary, specially priced, O'Reilly book bundles and 6-month hassle-free CD-subscriptions available. Limited installation support and documentation is included. Visit the OpenOSX web site for more details at: <http://OpenOSX.com/office/> OpenOSX is a company dedicated to serving, and expanding, the Macintosh community. Founded on the premise that many computer users are intimidated by the UNIX command-line, OpenOSX committed itself to one mission- bringing popular Unix software to both the "Unix-challenged" and the seasoned, Mac inclined system administrator in a friendly, Mac environment. __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". MacTech, Developer Depot, RadGad, and Xplain Corporation are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>. --
