It has been a long time coming, but OpenOffice.org have moved a step closer to a native OS X port. The first development snapshot was released this morning. This is an alpha release, and they warn:
THESE BUILDS SHOULD BE USED AT YOUR OWN RISK FOR TESTING PURPOSES ONLY. THEY MAY CRASH OR CAUSE DATA LOSS.
As with any early development release there are lots of things that don’t work yet, such as printing, exporting to PDF, copy/paste, drang and drop, multiple monitors, etc. That’s to be expected. While I am a little tempted to run the alpha release and provide feedback to the development team, I don’t know that I actually have the time to devote to that sort of endeavor right now. Instead, I think I will jump on the first beta, and install it alongside the X11 version, so that I can chime in on testing at that stage.
For those who are interested, the Mac Porting team have blogs and a news section where you can keep up with development if you wish.
Technorati Tags: OpenOffice.org, OS X