CC: to OP > 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]
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