Differences In Openoffices

I have noticed that OpenSuSE has it's own fork of OpenOffice. I mean, the OO I install through YaST repositories is slightly different to the one I download from openoffice.org. Could anyone tell me, what are the differences between these two versions? Are there any differences in funcions, etc, or only in icons and logos?

I have noticed that OpenSuSE has it's own fork of OpenOffice. I mean, the OO I install through YaST repositories is slightly different to the one I download from openoffice.org. Could anyone tell me, what are the differences between these two versions? Are there any differences in funcions, etc, or only in icons and logos?
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as far as i'm aware, no difference in function, just a little appearance changes here and there

as far as i'm aware, no difference in function, just a little appearance changes here and there
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that's not true, Novell highly contributes to OpenOffice and also has its own patchset... Michael Meeks does a lot of work on OO

I find that the OpenOffice that ships with openSUSE is much more compatible with Microsoft Office than the the normal version.

Thanks for your fast replies
So I assume that it's better to install OO from the OpenSuSE repo, rather than download it from openoffice.org or use OO repositories?

Yes, among other things because it's been packed for openSUSE.

Since you are using openSUSE: Yes it's really recommended.

actually, Yast installation is not really important:

The Novell® edition of OpenOffice.org will support many Visual Basic macros, closing one of the chief compatibility gaps between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org 2.0 can save and open documents created in Microsoft Office formats including Excel pivot tables, and it is the only office suite available today that fully supports the OpenDocument file format, the new public standard for document files. Because OpenDocument is a public standard maintained by the open source community, it eliminates vendor lock-in by ensuring information saved in spreadsheets, documents and presentations is freely accessible to any OpenDocument-supporting application.[/b]

the above makes more sense as a reason to stick with suse "fork" of OO.org.

the problem with this "fork" is that Novell made Microsoft so called Open XML the default file format at some point, providing MS with enough arguments to push their specs over ODF
unless this changed recently it seem to be a little bit of problem

as far as plugin availability go, you can freely download these.

Well I have actually looked at this and can only say I'm a little confused by it all.

Firstly http://en.opensuse.org/OpenOffice.org which says http://go-oo.org/ which sends you to here http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/ooo-build/ Now either trunk or the branch seem to have very similar people committing.

I also noticed other distro's using http://download.go-oo.org/OOH680/ to say I was a little confused.

But I appreciate Suse for what they are doing here, regardless of forks.

Once again, thank you all for your replies
I have installed the one compiled for OpenSuSE and haven't seen any differences by now
I was afraid of installing it, after reading that for example k3b included in OpenSuSE repository have problems with burning audio CDs. But it seems like that kind of problems don't concern OO.

Regards