The post below reminds me of an old chestnut. Linux versions are now packaged as rpms or debs. That could be problematic if the installer works in a way which is incompatible with a particular operating system (OS).
That problem is always on my mind. Try as I have, I have been unable to find (so far) a Linux OS which suits me as well as my present one. I have also been unable to find a Linux operating system which supports OpenOffice. Sooner or later, I will quite possibly have to switch to LibreOffice just because the OO installer borks my OS. My recollection is that several years ago there was at least a discussion about the possibility of a package of the same kind as Firefox and Thunderbird. Mozilla provides a compressed folder containing everything you need apart from plugins and, I dare say, Mozilla could include plugins if it wanted to. In other words, the Mozilla software does NOT interfere with the operating system. It is self-contained. That may be too big an issue for bugs. Does anyone think it worth raising the issue and, if so, through which channel? Terry ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rob Weir <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Friday, 23 March 2012 1:26 PM > Subject: Re: CVE-2012-0037: OpenOffice.org data leakage vulnerability > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:32 PM, NoOp <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 03/22/2012 03:17 PM, Terry wrote: >>> This quote from the page mentioned by Rob: >>> >>> <quote>Linux and other platforms should consult their distro or > OS >>> vendor for patch instructions.</quote> >>> >>> My distro doesn't support OpenOffice; most, I gather, don't. >> ... > > This is good to know, very good in fact. We were working on several > assumptions: > > 1) There were some users running OOo 3.3 on commercially supported LTS > Linux builds. In those cases we did not want to encourage the user to > mess with their files directly. It is important in those cases that > they get the patch from their vendor. > > 2) Other users would just be using the latest distro support, which in > most cases have silently switched OOo to LibreOffice. Since > LibreOffice also fixed this same issue, such users would also get the > patch via their vendor's update mechanism. > > What we did not know is the number of Linux users who uninstalled > LibreOffice and manually installed OOo 3.3 instead. >From the sounds > of it, there are many such users. Me bad for missing that. But good > for the future of the project that there are so many with a preference > for OpenOffice. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
