They’ve updated the GUI a bit, which is a bit better then the 2.4, but it still doesn’t really compare to MS Office 2007. It reads MS Office 2007 blahx files now, frankly: who cares? Nice is that the notes in Writer are now shown in the margin, instead of a tiny yellow flake in the text.

Overall it’s pretty good, but not the huge improvement I hoped for.

If want to go through the German thoroughness then read the release notes: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.0.0rc1.html

It’s quite easy to install:

1. Download: http://download.openoffice.org/680/
2. Open a terminal
3. “tar xvf OOo_3.0.0rc1_20080904_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz”
4. “cd OOO300_m5_native_packed-3_en-US.9350/DEBS”
5. “sudo dkpg -i *.deb”
6. “cd “desktop-integration”
7. “sudo dkpg -i *.deb”

That’s it. There should be entries in the gnome menu, pretty good install for a release candidate. What they should have mentioned that you should kill the config directories in your home.

1. “cd ~”
2. “rm -fR openoffice.org”
3. “rm -fR openoffice.org2″
4. “rm -fR openoffice.org3″

I tried to start OO3 without that, but then it kept throwing document recovered messages at me.