Hi,
So is Vista supported? It certainly isn't deprecated. But neither
is it getting the full QA treatment. Similar questions for Linux
releases. We don't test every release of every distro. We pick the
major ones, such as the Ubuntu LTS releases.
on Vista I would be surprised if AOO won't run on it.
On Linux if AOO picks a defined version of a Linux distro as a
'supported' one then this would be the wrong decision. 'Supporting' has
to be seen in a more technical manner not from the 'commercial support'
POV. In the past OOo was built by using a build infrastructure that
allowed OOo to run the binary on most of the Linux distributions. There
were just a few distros that failed because they were incompatible to
everything else.
Platform compatibility depends on some prerequisites (just some examples):
glibc versions supported
system dependent system integration (eg. on KDE, Gnome, etc.)
drag&drop support
clipboard support
sane support on that platform
java dependencies on that platform (eg. Sun Java version, OpenSource
derivates)
The more important question is: Is AOO a LSB compatible application ?
Kind regards, Joost
