The Samba Team announced the availability of the first official, stable release of the Samba 3.0.0 code base. In other interesting Unix/Linux software releases this week, we had OpenOffice.org 1.1-RC5, Ximian Evolution 1.4.5, QCad 2.0.0 and Main Actor 5.0. UPDATE: KOffice 1.3 Beta 4 was released too.
Samba 3.0 Released; More Unix Releases
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I love OpenOffice mainly for the reason that its pretty much the only worthy open-source alternative to Office. But it still has a few VERY annoying things that make it impractical in daily use (at least to anyone who is used to Office). For example pressing “suppr” in Calc doesn’t just erase the cell, it show this annoying window asking you what kind of suppression you want.
On the other hand the Flash and PDF output solutions should be a very useful feature that could make peoples switch
How about just simply remembering what view you used last?
I also hope that the Samba team did a security audit after their last remote exploit.
Yes, I understand your pain. Having a free office suite that can replace Office, any only sufferes from one problem. I am sure spending AUS$1099 on Office XP Professional just for the one feature sounds like real value for money 😉
Regarding SAMBA, I would love to see it appear in MacOS X as the ActiveDirectory support would be a great help for interoperability.
I really liked OpenOffice equation editor for allowing me to enter equations with codes instead of clicking those buttons (or memorizing meaningless shortcuts). It really sucks to have no search & replace in Word equation editor.
I have been using Open Office for about 4 years with great success. I currently have a 40 page document full of graphs and pics for university and 1.1rc4 has worked flawlessly except for a problem with footnotes on a mixed single column/double column page. PDF export is great except pictures are not good quality (blurry jpegs I guess?). I also pasted the FreeBSD manual into OO a while ago…over 800 pages and it worked great!
Does this has anything merged from SambaNG — or am I missing the idea completely?
Hi, I’ve downloaded qcad2 and I’ve compiled it, as explained in the Readme file. The resulting code works great but though the source tar ball is 2.2 MB in size the resulting directory structure has 411Mb (!!) and the binary has a size of 65MB (!)
$ du -sh ~/qcad-2.0.0.1-1.src/
411M /home/boris/qcad-2.0.0.1-1.src
$ ll -h ~/qcad-2.0.0.1-1.src/qcad/qcad
-rwxrwxr-x 1 boris boris 65M 24. Sep 01:04 /home/boris/qcad-2.0.0.1-1.src/qcad/qcad
It seems like the binary and all libraries are being statically linked. Compilation took very very long (more then an hour).
Who can help ??
thanks Boris
Did you strip out the debug information? Do it like this:
strip –strip-all qcad
BTW, there is a Linux binary to download too…
Openoffice is great, no complains, but how many RC’s do they need? RC5? I thought they would have the final version by now.. I guess it means they are thorough, which means in turn they have high hopes for 1.1. Only the icons are still ugly and old; luckily you can download a simple script from kde-look.org to replace the ooo-icons with for example nuvola! It works great, and enchances desktop consistency…
Only the icons are still ugly and old; luckily you can download a simple script from kde-look.org to replace the ooo-icons with for example nuvola! It works great
Link?
Also, QCad is an option, but is there a GTK2 CAD program available that anyone knows of?
I’d like to see the Netatalk team release a version supporting AFP3.0 — long filenames! Please! Of course, using OfficeX, it won’t matter. I also wish MSFT would release an update to OfficeX enabling long filename support.
I know that OOo is the de facto Linux office suite, but if all you’re looking for is a Word Processor (like me), you could take a look at AbiWord 2.0. It’s GTK2 and looks sweet, works nice too.
Of course, nothing beats a Vim+LaTeX combination.
Has anyone got this preview version of Main Actor to run yet?
It just freezes up when it first loads on my RedHat9 machine.
Vim++VimSpell+LaTeX trounces Vim+LaTeX
Unless you can actually spell and type.
While an updated OpenOffice is great (I can’t wait for it to hit the full 1.1 release so it can show up in FreeBSD ports), the one I’m really excited about is Qcad! This is an excellent program. I was using it a couple of months ago for drawing up diagrams for assembly instructions of locks that we have to train people on at work, and it worked great. The only feature I was missing at the time was the elipse. If only that feature had been there a few months back when I was using it heavily… but oh well. I’m glad to see this update!
To change the toolbars:
http://kdelook.org/content/show.php?content=7131
In addition to the above comments:
1.1’s filters are so much better than 1.0.2.
No more crashes when I need to save in *.doc format.
Other graphical downsides:
The toolkit is ugly. And the color selection dropdown menu is a little unsatisfactory.
I just wish I could get it to work on my mandrake cooker. (it locks up at the end of startup). Right now I have to reboot into window$.%&%&%%@@$
I can’t wait for it to hit the full 1.1 release so it can show up in FreeBSD ports
The RC’s are also in the ports, in editors/openoffice-devel. You can get packages from here:
http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/
to all people complaining about OpenOffice bugs or annoyances: you reported the problems to the OpenOffice developers ? How can you hope that bugs will be fixed if you don’t tell anyone ? just go to http://www.openoffice.org, create a free account and report the bugs or feature request! I already reported some bugs and they will be fixed in the next version.
How long does it usually take till the other distributions get respective rpms?
I’m really disappointed in osnews for not mentioning the release of gnumeric 1.2
AVL:
*smacks forehead* doh… I should’ve known. Thanks for the tip. =0)
Anyone know if Samba 3 will make it into Slackware 9.1 ?
>I’m really disappointed in osnews for not mentioning the release of gnumeric 1.2
Make a search before you speak:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4548
>Anyone know if Samba 3 will make it into Slackware 9.1 ?
Only Patrick knows. Email him…