NeoOffice installation is typical of other software on Mac OS X.

I installed NeoOffice on a 1.8GHz G5 iMac with 1GB of RAM running Mac OS X 10.4.5. NeoOffice builds do not run natively on Apple’s Intel-based Macs, though the project is projecting an alpha build for Intel-based Macs sometime this summer. The minimum requirements for NeoOffice are Mac OS X 10.3, 256MB of RAM, and at least 400MB of free disk space. ’s fonts look jagged and a bit clunky - a reminder of the bad old days before Linux had decent font support. Copy and paste works, but only if you manually copy and paste the text - with NeoOffice, you can simply highlight text in another application (say, Firefox) and drag it to an open document.įonts look much better in NeoOffice than in out of the box, because NeoOffice enjoys native support for Mac OS X fonts. Why not ? The project does provide a build for OS X, but it’s dependent on X11, doesn’t support copy and paste from other applications the way that NeoOffice does, and generally isn’t as well integrated into Mac OS X.įor example, menus (File, Edit, etc.) are located within the application windows, whereas NeoOffice supports the traditional Mac OS X design and uses the traditional Mac menu bar at the top of the screen. NeoOffice isn’t perfect, but it’s a great alternative for Mac users who don’t want to shell out big bucks for Microsoft Office, and want a suite that’s more full-featured than Apple’s iWork. I decided to kick the tires a bit and see how well it performs.

Developers Patrick Luby and Edward Peterlin released NeoOffice 1.2, a port of 1.1.5 to Mac OS X, in early February.

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