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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Stuart Longland <redhatter@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:40:03PM +0800, David Nelson wrote: |
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>> A number of Linux distributions have announced their intention to ship |
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>> LibreOffice with their future releases. We know that they frequently |
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>> do re-branding work to integrate their chosen office suite in lines |
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>> with their project's thinking. |
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>> So we are keen to involve you in our project branding and development, |
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>> so that we ship releases that better fit your needs. |
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> Do we even brand OpenOffice? I can't spot the difference between the |
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> self-built OpenOffice.org binary I have, and the official Sun binary I |
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> had previously. |
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> My concern with LibreOffice would be more to do with compiling it... |
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> it'd be a nice package to have on the Yeeloong, but AFAIK it needs |
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> Java..? Something I've been trying to bootstrap unsuccessfully for the |
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> best part of two years now. (gcj-jdk is a long way from usable, and |
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> there's a chicken-egg issue with icedtea6.) It also needs _lots_ of RAM |
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> and disk space ... not a plentiful resource on MIPS. |
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gNewSense, which came installed on the Yeelong I have, has OpenJDK and |
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OpenOffice, so it's certainly possible. |
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Matt |
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