ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/

..a nice Microsoft IIS server there.

Look, a Joke Icon, it's there, just look!

Ta, nice and quick, too.

why the change from the usual derogatory freetards?

I love the current message I'm getting when trying to access www.openoffice.org:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /servlets/ContentHelmNoodle on this server.

So what exactly IS a ContentHelmNoodle?

The main site's currently (16:21) giving a nice little 403 error...

"You don't have permission to access /servlets/ContentHelmNoodle on this server."

I wonder if they've heard of "chmod 644 <filename>"...

Only Intel MacOSX support.

That's no good!

Maybe it just didn't occur to them. Remember their roots.

@Alex Wright: Source code is available for it. I hear PPC is still available as a target. So though you can't download precompiled versions of OOo, you can download a source package and "make" it yourself.

I just hit a mirror that was giving me around 1.1MBbytes per second. That didn't take long ^.^

Google is your friend ... even if they may be an evil one.

Shame that it buckled under the load. Wanted to see more info about it.

Paris... because she loves going down to high demand.

"Only Intel MacOSX support. (...)"

It seems that yhey're hiding the PPC version...

Go here:

http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0rc4/

and scroll down to:

OOo_3.0.0rc4_MacOSXPowerPC_install.dmg

or, I assume, this one:

OOo_3.0.0rc4_MacOSXPowerPC_install_en-GB.dmg

...if you're on that side of the pond.

Thus far, in the little that I've used it, it seems to run quite snappily on my machine and does what I want it to do,

Enjoy!

They've been touched by His Noodly Appendasge ;)

I'm not allowed to access their site from work anyway and it's too big for my dial-up service from home.

Damn good and better than Kosher, being free.

Runs fine on a Vista laptop with 1 Gig of memory.

Bit smoother and slicker than earlier versions and renders quite challenging test docs well.

Will try its compatibility (or otherwise) with VBA macros — up till now my only issue.

Noodles ? Pot noodles ? Yummy ! Does this mean that pot noodle supports OOO ?

Now they're both great for being lightweight :-

OOO for leaving your wallet intact, and doing everything you want properly. Image captioning in word for example is idiotic ! In OOO it's a doddle. Do an X-Y plot in excel where the x-axis data is not sorted - it will fail, while OOO tells you what the problem is.

pot noodle, being dehydrated, and contained in it's own tub is great for camping/hiking/cycling trips where you don't want to be lugging loads of weight round but still want a hot meal. As long as you can recycle the plastic tub.

Nice to see a healthy demand for this excellent software !!!!

You not on an Intel yet? .... come on as a follower of the cult of Steve Jobs, you know you have to spend at least 25% of your salary a year on apple products. mines the one trying to conceal my Apple ][ Europlus

"it can't run my vba macros i don't want it."

Go wash your mouth out with some soap...

Well, I don't know if I'd consider it a bug. OO 2.3 does the same thing. And so would Perl do with:

$test = 'aaaaaaaaa';

while ($test =~ s/^a{4}//) { 1 }

print $test;

Which would just print "a". So the "problem" is that the "Replace all" doesn't work line by line, but looks at the text as a stream.

Of course if this is not what you expect then you might call it a bug. But having a free form text editor work line-by-line could be tricky, seeing that e.g. page margins makes line lengths change. :-)

If it *CAN* run VBA macros - I don't want it.

re m$ orifice : it doesn't work properly, is overpriced, overfeatured, and a complete waste of money, be your copy legit, pirate, or currently serving as a drinks coaster. I've already highlighted 2 common situations with m$ orifice where the behaviour is crazy. These are normal/common use activities that don't work properly ! Properly tested ? Hmmmmm I think not. Most real office users don't need m$ orifice, and shouldn't have it. The only time you might is that special add-in for a particular business need that is only available for excel.

Now OOO may not be perfect, but it does what I want, very well, and doesn't rip me off !! It *WILL* have been tested. And it is totally open, instead of trying to lock me in at every turn.

Long live OOO !

So, is the Debian packages out on the repository yet? Or do I have to wait a year or five for them?

Hurray, now I can at least fix all those dead XML files that MS Office creates.

I have noticed that OOo is always able to open files and at least partially rescue the content of them where MS Office (which corrupted the files in the first place) simply would give up or crash.

I prefer OO, just because of that - and because it doesn't run VBA..

Looks like they only do the english version in US.

Us poor Brits will have to put up with the American spell checker.

search google for the mirror list and view the cached version, from there select you local mirror. very challenging.

Mine's the one with the book of puzzles in the pocket.

If an Open Source release does not bring the server down these days then it is probably considered unsuccessful. What better publicity (to the average Joe) than that your servers crashed due to demand for your product.

Black helicopter cos I reckon they pulled the plug themselves

Get a life, like we all want to know about your travails with Open Office...

I have just downloaded and installed this and I am very disappointed. I was expecting Open Office to be identical to Office 2007 or at least even 2003 but it looks very old. I'm going to reinstall Office. I have wasted hours.

Perhaps if they had posted some torrents of the files, they wouldn't have fally over servers. I'm pretty sure they used to encourage you to download via Torrent before, but this time around they seem to offer only HTTP and FTP links.

Even now - with their super small emergency homepage - they are pushing you to HTTP/FTP.

It's alright love, we all have our crosses to bear. :)