Re: OpenOffice1.1 in testing ppc (and XP)

[Chris Halls <halls@debian.org>]

Hi Clive,

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 12:20, Clive Menzies wrote:
> What a great step up from 1.0.3 this version is! Thanks a bunch from a
> very happy user - I've not yet had much chance to explore but it did
> enable me to hit the ground running with everything I needed.  

Thanks a lot for the encouragement!  I'm afraid you'll find that
database access is currently broken on ppc but we hope to find a fix for
this soon.

> Look and
> feel is considerably improved (although that may also have something to
> do with being on sarge).

Maybe a combination of changes to 1.1, the newer libfreetype and work by
Ximian and Martin on the icons.

> My partner has just acquired a new Acer laptop and on the basis of my
> experience with OOo on Debian, has just put the Windows version of OOo on her XP
> system and it works like a dream - all we have to do now is get it dual
> booting into sarge;)

Good luck :)

> So a big thank you to Chris, Jan and all for your great work.

And Rene, and freenet.de for hosting the powerpc machine for us to build
OOo on :)

Thanks,
Chris