On 1/28/2021 11:48 AM, Dennis Hamilton wrote: > Marcia, > > Thank you for the license links and your appraisal. > > Your choosing GNU Linux to feature will be welcome. There are also some > variations to consider, since different desktop Linux distributions may have > somewhat different application appearance and, in particular, install > differences when AOO is not furnished by the distribution. > > I don't know if you consider BSD Unix and FreeBSD within your reach or not. > The CC-By licensing will be favorable there. Also, some Linux distros might > provide AOO as an installable option. I think BSD also did that, in the > past. I don't know if the practice has been continued. > Dennis;
At least one of our committers is a maintainer of the FreeBSD port and regularly contributes patches back to our source repository from there. Regards Keith > There is now a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a native subsystem (not > just under a VM). I have no idea whether anyone uses AOO for production use > in that case, but a reviewer might with regard to checking your Getting > Started drafts. The installation of WSL improves with each W10 release, and > the ability to launch Windows apps from the WSL (and vice versa) is improving > all the time. <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10>. > > I wish you success in creation of a Getting Started guide that is oriented to > what Linux users will see and need to know for successful application of > Apache OpenOffice Linux-targeted release versions. > > - Dennis > <snip>
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