I want to thank all of you who replied to my question. As usual I got
many different viewpoints and as such have decided to install
LibreOffice & give it a go. As for those concerned about my implied
failure to do my own discovery...well that is exactly why I've been a
participating member of the D
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, John W Foster wrote:
> 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few
> days ago?
Because that PR was unfortunately worded. We are not _switching to_
LibreOffice, we're switching package names. We've been shipping what is now
named LibreOffice all alo
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:26:39 -0500, John W Foster wrote:
> 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few
> days ago?
I suppose because is a community based development and supported upstream.
> 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported?
OpenOffice is dead by now. I
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:55:22PM +0200, Steven wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:26 -0500, John W Foster wrote:
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>
> > 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice?
>
> It is supposed to be faster, has more bugs fixed, and so on. It also
> appears to me much more active in development
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 01:26:39PM -0500, John W Foster wrote:
> 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few
> days ago?
> 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported?
> 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice?
>
> These questions are not intended to start a fl
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:26:39 -0500
John W Foster wrote:
> 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few
> days ago?
> 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported?
> 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice?
>
> These questions are not intended to start a flame w
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:26 -0500, John W Foster wrote:
> 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few
> days ago?
From what I read and heard, most distributions switched, or are in the
process of switching. It also appears most of the developers are behind
LibreOffice,
2011/6/29 John W Foster :
> 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few
> days ago?
Because the community has switched to LibreOffice.
> 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported?
Perhaps by Oracle, the Apache foundation, IBM or whomever may be
interestested, not b
1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few
days ago?
2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported?
3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice?
These questions are not intended to start a flame war! I have never even
looked at LibreOffice, as I did not need to. Now
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