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
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 than
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, 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
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.
2011/6/29 John W Foster jfoster81...@verizon.net:
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
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,
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:26:39 -0500
John W Foster jfoster81...@verizon.net 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
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 flame
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