>* What I do know, is, what the press will write. * > > They will write: Hey, thanks to kernel 2.6.27 (released after feature freeze) > we have cool wireless, cool bluetooth, and > thanks to the new X.org our 2 Screen setup fails now (*cough*). But hey: Gimp > 2.6 (released after feature freeze) > Gnome 2.24 (released... you know when) and KDE v.4.1.* are great. The only > thing which is strange is: Open Office is > still on v.2.4 - so there is no way to open MS Office 2007 xdocs (xdoc is > standard there). > > If you want to work further on your MS Office 2007 documents but want to > switch to an easy to use linux distro then > better consider to switch to open suse or mandriva - they are also absolutely > easy to install, have the same software > base but they even work like a charm with MS Office 2007 stuff. Its of course > possible to install Open Office 3 on your > own - but then you might consider to switch to a distro for more experienced > users like fedora, debian or errm gentoo.
Yes, don't worry about the facts like that the ooo-build version of OpenOffice.org has supported Microsoft Office 2007 files since at least version 2.3 (maybe even 2.2). Check out your hardy or gutsy version of OOo and see that it opens docx files. The only thing that changed was upstream (read Sun) finally added support for Microsoft Office 2007 files to their version with 3.0. And a large part of the reason Gnome is allowed in so late in the cycle is that it has a much better record of stability and QA than upstream OpenOffice.org. They also accept patches, etc without huge amount of red tape. Most of the 500+ patches in ooo-build could go directly into Sun's version without any of the licensing complication that is made so much of, if only they would accept them. There was a discussion on one of the OOo lists in the past that it takes somewhere around 4 months of work to get even a single really small patch accepted by Sun upstream. Chris -- [Request] OpenOffice.org 3.0 in Intrepid Backports https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/267376 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
