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OpenOffice.org Down by Demand, Use This Mirror Instead (Updated)

As many people might aware by now, the official site is down due to heavy demand. The high volume of requests was probably intended to overwhelm mirrors, as opposed to the domain which serves as a pointer to them. Anyway, it's rather unfortunate as The Register reports.



Eager beavers keen to get their hands on the long-awaited arrival of version 3.0 of OpenOffice.org are currently unable to download the free, open source-flavoured suite of office apps because demand has broken the website.


You can get it directly from the mirrors though. Here is one such mirror:















[archive] OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US.tar.gz  148.6M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz  147.1M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz  167.3M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US.tar.gz  155.0M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_LinuxX86-64_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz  153.5M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[binary] OOo_3.0.0_MacOSXIntel_AQUA_install_en-US.dmg  162.7M  06-Oct-2008 
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_SolarisSparc_install_en-US.tar.gz  151.4M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_SolarisSparc_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz  188.6M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_Solarisx86_install_en-US.tar.gz  140.4M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_Solarisx86_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz  172.1M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_src_binfilter.tar.bz2  6.3M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_src_core.tar.bz2  174.5M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_src_extensions.tar.bz2  13.3M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_src_l10n.tar.bz2  82.0M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[archive] OOo_3.0.0_src_system.tar.bz2  42.8M  06-Oct-2008  [browse]
[binary] OOo_3.0.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe  128.0M  06-Oct-2008 
[binary] OOo_3.0.0_Win32Intel_install_wJRE_en-US.exe  128.0M  06-Oct-2008 


There is also an extensive review for those who are interested.

After a lengthy development cycle, we have a shiny new version of OpenOffice.org to play around with. But has it been worth the wait? Neil Bothwick rolls up his sleeves and picks apart OOo 3.0's new features, finding out whether it deserves a major version number bump and finally sorts out the performance woes...

After the well-received release of Firefox 3, it's time for another major update in the FOSS world - and this time it's OpenOffice.org. OOo 3.0 has arrived and there are three key questions to be answered here: what new features does it introduce, it is any faster and is it worth of the full version number jump?


Happy downloading.

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Update: here is a better short overview/review.

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