SOT (Source for Open Technology) Office for Windows

[Lord Possum]

Holy Moley! Nuff said! For those with ooomph enough to download the
whole thing .. you got a surprise coming. Fundamentally based on
Open Office (they said), this download doesn't seem anything LIKE Open
Office .. it's vastly superior.

ftp://ftp.sot.com/sotoffice-2003/SOTO_2003.iso

 

[Jeff Needle]

Holy Moley! Nuff said! For those with ooomph enough to download the
whole thing .. you got a surprise coming. Fundamentally based on
Open Office (they said), this download doesn't seem anything LIKE Open
Office .. it's vastly superior.

ftp://ftp.sot.com/sotoffice-2003/SOTO_2003.iso

There is a better link:

http://www.sotlinux.org/en/lbaoffice/download.php

You can download the Windows distribution very quickly. The link you give
offers a download of over 600 meg, according to my computer! Apparently,
according to what I've read, this is the whole thing, including the Linux
distribution and lots of other irrelevant stuff.

 

[Mel]

Holy Moley! Nuff said! For those with ooomph enough to download the
whole thing .. you got a surprise coming. Fundamentally based on
Open Office (they said), this download doesn't seem anything LIKE Open
Office .. it's vastly superior.

Earlier releases SOT Office 2003

ftp://ftp.sot.com/sotoffice-2003/SOTO_2003.iso

LBA Office and OpenOffice.org.

LBA Office is based on the Open Source OpenOffice.org project, and
offers all the features of the OpenOffice.org application.

In addition, LBA Office includes a number of fixes and enhancements over
OpenOffice.org. These additional features include:

* Compatibility with WordPerfect documents
* Windows shortcuts implementation
* Internationalization improvements:
o Help text available in Finnish and Russian
o Spellcheck, Thesarurus and Hyphenation support for Finnish and
Russian.

Windows

LBA Office R2 for Windows is included as extra software on the LBA-Linux
R2 installation DVD. If you don't want to download the entire DVD, use
the links below to download LBA Office for Windows separately:

ftp://ftp.sot.com/lbaoffice_r2/win32/lba_office_r2_en.zip

 

[curt]

Holy Moley! Nuff said! For those with ooomph enough to download the
whole thing .. you got a surprise coming. Fundamentally based on
Open Office (they said), this download doesn't seem anything LIKE Open
Office .. it's vastly superior.

ftp://ftp.sot.com/sotoffice-2003/SOTO_2003.iso

Thanks, I'm downloading it now. For people without big pipes to the
Internet or don't feel like downloading a 650MB ISO, you can try this
instead:
ftp://ftp.sot.com/sotoffice-2003/SOTO_2003/windows/soto_en.zip

 

[KHaled]

Thanks, I'm downloading it now. For people without big
pipes to the Internet or don't feel like downloading a
650MB ISO, you can try this instead:
ftp://ftp.sot.com/sotoffice-2003/SOTO_ 2003/windows/soto_en.z
ip

Thanks, that download is a reasonable 63 meg.. The question
is, how will it compare with the upcoming release of OS.Org

--
KHaled

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[JoeA]

Did anyone test this yet?

 

[ozzy]

Did anyone test this yet?

I have & I believe others on acf have too.

\quote from their page:

LBA Office and OpenOffice.org.

LBA Office is based on the Open Source OpenOffice.org project, and offers all the features of the OpenOffice.org application.

In addition, LBA Office includes a number of fixes and enhancements over OpenOffice.org. These additional features include:

Compatibility with WordPerfect documents
Windows shortcuts implementation
Internationalization improvements:
Help text available in Finnish and Russian
Spellcheck, Thesarurus and Hyphenation support for Finnish and Russian.

I am currently in the process of removing OO from my pc. LBA Office has many
enhancements and I think is better than OO... so far )

It doesn't really matter which one you use.... It's a win-win situation IMHO

ozzy