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Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 2.x

Chapter 1: What is OpenOffice.org?

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• What does OpenOffice.org include?
• The advantages of OpenOffice.org

• How does OpenOffice.org compare?
• Features
• New features in version 2

• Minimum requirements
• Getting the software
• How to get help
• A short history of OpenOffice.org
• How is OpenOffice.org licensed?
• What is "open source"?
• Frequently asked questions

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Getting the software

You can get the OpenOffice.org installation package in any of these ways:

• Download a copy from the project's home page: http://www.openoffice.org.
• Download a copy using the Peer to Peer client, BitTorrent. The instructions are here: http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/.
• Purchase a copy on a CD-ROM or other digital form from a third-party distributor. The project maintains a listing of distributors; however, these distributors are not connected with, nor endorsed by OpenOffice.org: http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/sellers.html.
• The OpenOffice.org Porting Project has links to versions of the software that have been, or are currently being, “ported" to run under various operating systems, including natively under Mac OS X. http://porting.openoffice.org/index.html.