OpenOffice.org Novell Edition

OpenOffice.org Novell edition is a version of OpenOffice.org maintained by Novell.

Novell Inc. is the second largest contributer to OpenOffice.org after Sun Microsystems. Novell tends to tackle large additions and donates them back to the full project once they are finished. Due to the delay of integrating larger chunks of code into the rest of the project, the Novell Edition is typically enhanced by a few features.

OpenOffice.org Novell Edition is an open-source office suite, including a applications for word processing, presentations, vector graphics, formula editing, spreadsheet calculations, and databases. It is available for different platforms Linux platforms and delivered as part of Novell's own Linux distribution SuSE. OpenOffice.org is also available for MS Windows.

As an open-source package OpenOffice.org Novell Edition is available at no cost. It is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). OpenOffice.org Novell Edition supports as default the Open Document Format(ODF), however, it is also compatible with Microsoft Office for reading and writing all types of Microsoft Office documents. This makes it easy to exchange documents with people that use the market leading office suite.

You can learn more about StarOffice at Novell's OpenOffice.org Novell Edition page.

There are other derivatives of OpenOffice.org

StarOffice is a commercial product by Sun Microsystems based on OpenOffice.org, adding commercial components such as additional fonts and improved spell checking dictionaries.
NeoOffice is an open source version for Mac OS X that adds full support for the Aqua user interface. The general ports of OOo to Mac OS X require an X Window extension that does use it's own look and feel for user interactions.

Using OpenOffice.org Novell Edition

As a close cousin of OpenOffie.org, you can use all screencasts in Plan-B as well. In fact in most cases you won't notice any difference. However, Plan-B for OpenOffice.org does currently not include screencasts for features specific to OOo Novell Edition

The following screencasts demonstrate features of OpenOffice.org such as how to start using Open Office:

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