Judging from a recent newspost on YellowTAB’s site, their developers have been hard at work on their port of OpenOffice.org. They’re now up to 50 of the 200 packages comprising OO.o (10 more than the previous update), including a major component called the SAL (System Abstraction Layer). From the sounds of it, they needed to create bindings between its functions and native BeOS functions, which made it necessary to add missing functionality to Zeta’s kernel and libroot library. Sounds like fun. The post also mentions that they’ve converted the suite’s cShell make-scripts to Bash and have submitted the changes upstream to OO.o. The post ends by saying that they’re looking for any developers interested in helping to accelerate the porting process.

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