On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 22:12 +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: > Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > Well a simple google search will give you many posts about it. > > Yes, but not authoritative ones, mostly just yammering. > > > but you can read it here: > > > > http://digitizor.com/2010/02/05/openoffice-dropped-from-ubuntu-netbook-edition-10-04/ > > Thanks. The nastiness in the bait-and-switch apparent in Ubuntu 10.04 > has been very visible for about two releases. The distro is a > write-off at this point. > > OOo on netbooks is possible, though not as fast. A few years ago (or > more) there was discussion of the need to trim down and streamline the > OOo code. Unfortunately, the OOo programmers already do a lot of work. > The rewrite would be one the scale of the Mozilla rewrite, probably > larger. > > Small, light ODF tools the size of Geany or Kate are needed for text, if > not also spreadsheets and presentations.
I have Ubuntu on my netbook and use OOo on it occasionally, mainly Writer and Calc. Certainly I'm using Google Docs more these days for collaborative work and even just making web pages fo quite a lot I might have use a WP for a couple of years ago. With Smartphone moving into the netbook space maybe OOo trying to compete on features with MSO at the desktop is fighting the wrong out of date battle. A stripped down OOo for the Smartphone would be a killer but I suspect that by the time this could be done it will be too late. Other lightweight odf apps will surely emerge. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
