NeoOffice/J – OpenOffice.org without X11 dependency

Also released already earlier this summer, NeoOffice/J was new to me. OOo did run on my Mac OS X but the X11 setup got mixed up recently and OOo refused to start up again.

Even so NeoOffice/J is not meant for the enduser one might have a go on version 0.0.1. The aim of NeoOffice/J is mainly to get rid of the dependency of X11 while going for Java [1]. It comes along as a dmg file and provides a simple installation dialog. NeoOffice/J did run from scratch on Mac OS X 10.2.6 without any error messages or warnings. It has some delays on the button animation but that is probably mostly a machine related thing.

[1] http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/

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