Don't use OpenOffice.org Beta (1.9.95)

Bob Nielsen nielsen at oz.net
Mon Apr 25 05:53:06 UTC 2005


On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:07:35PM -0400, David Teague wrote:
> 
> The Linux version of OpenOffice.org 1.9.95 pegs the cpu while 
> idle. See the bug report at
> 
>  http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=47944. As a result, I
> 
> I just had an equivalent problem in Windows XP. When I 
> stress the writer application by opening a web page with 
> Writer the system crawls and the Task Manager says that 
> soffice.bin is using 95-99% of the CPU. 
> 
> I killed and removed 1.9.95. I'll continue to use 1.9.69.
> 
> I will wait for DSL (first week in May) to install Ubuntu 
> and fetch the then current OpenOffice.org beta - if it is a
> later version. 

Hoary currently has 1.1.3-8ubuntu2 (openoffice.org) 
and 1.9.79.2-0ubuntu2 (openoffice.org2).







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