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OpenOffice.org without X11: surprising progress on the Aqua port

Posted by Graham Perrin on 28 May 2007

The Aqua port of OpenOffice.org, which does not require X11, has made surprising progress.

A few days ago I was pleasantly amazed to stumble across a disk image with an experimental version that was way ahead of anything I expected so soon after Sun’s 3rd May announcement.

A torrent will be seeded, I plan to be amongst the first to join.

I gather that the torrent will not appear at any of the following:

— instead, the torrents will have their own pages.

See also:


I remain an everyday user of NeoOffice.


For what it’s worth: my number one wish for NeoOffice.org and/or OpenOffice.org is to enable sound and vision — primarily for Impress.

(Microsoft’s ideas of video compatibility, and the failures of OLE and PowerPoint packaging, are utterly bonkers.)

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