Hi :) Just in case anyone here is not on the announce list i just thought you might like to know that LO runs on a machine that is about as small as the smallest mobile phones, possibly even smaller.
Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Italo Vignoli <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2012, 11:13 >Subject: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice runs on the Raspberry Pi, with the right >license > >The full fledged free office suite is available on the credit card sized >single-board computer developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation > >Cambridge (UK) and Berlin (Germany), December 20, 2012 - The Raspberry >Pi Foundation (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) and The Document Foundation >(http://www.documentfoundation.org/) announce the availability of the >full fledged version of LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/) on the >Raspberry Pi, the credit-card sized computer created with the intention >of stimulating the teaching of basic computer science in schools. The >Raspberry Pi is a little PC which plugs into a TV and a keyboard and can >be used for many of the things that most desktop PC can do, like >spreadsheets, word-processing and games. > >LibreOffice is the first comprehensive office suite to run on a 40 >dollar credit card sized PC, without any compromise on features and >performances. LibreOffice has been ported to ARM by multiple >contributors from Canonical, Debian and RedHat, and was packaged for the >Raspberry Pi by Rene Engelhard as a part of his work as the Debian >maintainer for LibreOffice. > >"The availability of LibreOffice, the best free office suite ever, on >the Raspberry Pi - the most affordable PC ever, targeted to hardware and >software enthusiasts, and schools - is extremely important for The >Document Foundation, because it will contribute to the growth of the >brand awareness in key market segments", comments Bjoern Michaelsen, a >Canonical developer and a deputy member of the Board of Directors of The >Document Foundation. > >"I'm very impressed that the LibreOffice team didn't have to make any >changes to the code in order for it to compile and smoothly run on >Raspberry Pi", said Eben Upton from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. "It's >also great to have a comprehensive office suite available in the Pi >Store at launch, making people even more aware of the potential of this >device". > >LibreOffice is available from the Raspberry Pi Store >(http://store.raspberrypi.com/projects/libreoffice), which is described >here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2768 (including instructions >on how to install it). Raspberry Pi Foundation announcement press >release is here: http://blog.indiecity.com/?page_id=2269. > >UPDATE (December 20, 2012): The license blurb has been fixed, and it now >links to the LGPLv3 text. > >About the Raspberry Pi > >The Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer, designed to fit in a pocket, and >cheap enough to be bought with pocket money. It was developed by the >not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge to help children >engage with computer programming, and has won dozens of awards in its >first year of release. Additional information at http://www.raspberrypi.org. > >-- >Italo Vignoli - Director >phone +39.348.5653829 - skype italovignoli >email [email protected] >The Document Foundation >Zimmerstraße 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany >Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts >Legal Details: www.documentfoundation.org/imprint > >-- >Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/announce/ > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
