Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by ajdlinux on Friday September 02, 2016 @07:48AM
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I agree in the case of the Windows/OS X environment, where brand awareness of LibreOffice is low, but in the Linux world... my distribution (Debian) doesn't even package OpenOffice, and I don't know any Linux user who uses OOo.
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Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by chengiz on Friday September 02, 2016 @08:06AM
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Here's one. Never thought it necessary to change. OO works just fine.
Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by umanwizard on Friday September 02, 2016 @01:18PM
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LibreOffice is original OO, in terms of continuity of development, more so than AOO is.
Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by keithpeter on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:58PM
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And another one to some extent: oOo uses its own font rendering, the LO team (I gather) moved over to using libraries (harfbuzz) available in host OS for font rendering. I seem to have better results on former under some circumstances.
I have not had any round-trip editing problems flitting between the two under Linuxen of various kinds.
Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by chengiz on Saturday September 03, 2016 @10:17AM
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I didnt know this but at a more general level I am reluctant to "upgrade" what's already working fine due to this very fiddling with new stuff which is a common failing of the FOSS model in my experience (people wanting to add shiny things instead of making existing stuff better - Firefox, GNOME etc). This is one of the main reasons I did not migrate to LO.
Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by jbicha on Monday September 05, 2016 @09:26AM
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Are you using a distro from 2010? Because I believe most of the major Linux distros include LIbreOffice as part of the default install.
Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by chengiz on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @08:32AM
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I just checked - the latest I use is centos 7.1 which does have libreoffice already installed, however my daily machine is older and I had to install OO manually there.
Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by dorfsmay on Friday September 02, 2016 @10:09AM
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Wasn't OpenOffice own by Sunacle at some point?
I think that's when a lot of users moves to LibreOffice.