Hopefully this should be addressed by the final release.īranding differences aside, the two applications generally look and feel mostly the same. Using the mouse wheel to scroll through a document is relatively speedy in NeoOffice (albeit not as smooth as most apps), but right now is very sluggish and a bit disappointing in the OOo beta. Once you're actually in the app, however, the speed of both apps is comparable, apart from in one area. Taking Java out of the equation might be one of the elements speeding it up. The NeoOffice interface actually uses Java as a bridge to get to the Aqua user interface, as far as I'm aware, OOo doesn't. This might be just down to the official build's general speed improvements, but OOo is miles faster to cold start that NeoOffice.
NEOOFFICE VS OPENOFFICE MAC
Apart from the new features in OOo 3.0, what are the differences between the two native Mac implementations? This meant that when the official team focused their attention on a Mac port, all the hard work that the NeoOffice guys had done on getting their Mac port going couldn't be introduced back into the core source code, due to the licence differences.ĭifferences Between OOo 3.0b and NeoOfficeĪnyway, enough politics. The NeoOffice distribution is available only under the GPL, whereas OOo official has other licensing options available.
NEOOFFICE VS OPENOFFICE CODE
The differences between the two versions aren't just code and branding, however.
NEOOFFICE VS OPENOFFICE MAC OS X
While it certainly is possible to run X11 on Mac OS X and therefore run, it hardly provided a good user experience, and made it a right pain to do.įor lots of different reasons, the official project wouldn't devote the time and resources to doing the Mac port, so a group of developers took the OOo source code and made their own derivative just for the Mac, called NeoOffice. The reason why this was necessary is that was written basically to run under two windowing environments - it ran under Windows natively, and used X11 for Unix systems. Its aim was to bring the office suite natively over to the Mac platform. So let's get started!įor those who don't know, NeoOffice is a fork of the original code that started in 2003. Whatever your views on the Mac platform, FOSS support on platforms other than Linux is undeniably important, so going over to view OOo from that perspective is something I think that is good to do. I thought I would cross over to Mac OS X for this FOSSwire post, to compare the new native there to an unofficial fork called NeoOffice that has offered native support for a while now.
It has been a long time coming now, and one of the big new features being trumpeted is native Mac support. 3.0 Beta is now out, and available to download.
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