What's cool about it?, like the Firefox Web browser, can use extensions to increase its functionality. The file-locking mechanism preserved the document from my best attempts to make a complete mess of it.

I tried to mangle a shared document (that existed on a Windows Server 2008 file server) by editing it from my Linux desktop and also from my XP desktop. Now Jack in marketing, who uses a Mac, can't overwrite a change that was just made by Jill in the (Windows-based) comptroller's office. It's almost like running on a brand new machine.Īnother good feature, if you're considering for office use, is that it now has its own OS-independent file-locking system.

I saw similar performance boosts when running the various other applications. It used to take about 12 seconds to launch Writer now it takes just over 6 seconds. This was especially clear on when I ran it on a Windows XP system. What really caught my attention after a few minutes of using the various apps was how much faster this version is than version 3.0. I tested the suite on a Windows XP system and one running MEPIS 8, a Debian-based Linux distribution.

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