I just had a look at the ubuntu site, along with some of the demo pics of their OS. It seems from the demo pics, that the LibreOffice icons are displayed. Not sure if that means ubuntu is bundled with LO ?
I really like the idea of a free open source OS, along with software that works on the same principles. Not that I mind paying for software at all, but all this "phone home" stuff, constant updates, and linking my personal info to various other sites MS, Google, and others might offer, is getting to be a bit much I think. I've love to scrap my Vista OS, and use something like ubuntu, along with my firefox, but being such a non techie guy, I have no idea how to do such things to a PC. As a side note, what are everyone's thoughts on what's going on with the upcoming changes to Google? Ed 300E On 1 February 2012 23:13, Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dieselhead wrote: > > > I went to the univ junk sale today. They no longer install XP > > on the boxes they sell as working with OS. They are > > installing ubuntu (no license or phone home crap from M$$) and > > libreoffice. The guy I talk to there most often said that > > libreoffice is better than open office. > > > > I never heard of it until a couple weeks ago. > > A bunch of the folks who were developing OpenOffice escaped > because it was not being developed. Then Oracle bought it and > more left. LibreOffice is the result. It's a fork of > OpenOffice with more of the restrictive license components > replaced. It took a bit for it to catch up with OpenOffice, but > it's not hard to win against a stationary opponent. Seems > LibreOffice has caught up and should be moving ahead now. After > all, it's actually being developed! > > And this is part of the point of open/free software. OpenOffice > was a good product - but it was being abandoned. Enough clever > folks liked it enough to pick up the torch and keep running. > And meanwhile, all my data is in a format that isn't a locked > secret. _I_ can get to _my_ data. Why, I can even use a bash > script to create a .ods spreadsheet! > > -- Philip > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
