On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:54:31 +0100 Came this utterance fomulated by Reinier Bakels to my mailbox:
> Some further comments: > - If ME really is not supported, the installation should not crash but > give a proper message saying that. Even Microsoft does that ... Agreed. > - Does OOo 3.0 really depend on functionality that is not in ME? Looks that way but someone else will have more info on that. > Otherwise I would suggest to allow OOo 3.0 to be installed on it even > if it is not formally supported. Bill Gates forces his customers to > move to newer operating systems by dropping support for application > software, but I thought that open source open office really is > something different. OO.o 2.x is still supported and will still run on 98 and ME. http://download.openoffice.org/2.4.2/index.html In fact 2.4.2 was released after 3.0 What this means is because you don't have the latest greatest operating system you can't run the latest greatest software. That is normal across all OS's not just Microsofts offering. What you can do is get Linux installed on your older box and run that as well as Windows ME. Ubuntu is the latest posterboy, but you don't even have to go the whole hog. Get a live disk and see what runs, without upsetting anything on your windows disk. Be warned live disks are s-l-o-w as everything runs from the CD including the kernel and often has to be uncompressed on the fly. Choose your flavour of Linux here, you can even get a Mint flavour! http://distrowatch.com/ Chances are good OO.o v3.0 is supported. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
