# For LibreOffice I don't see any builds for Solaris. So, when we #wouldn't care about "our" platform, what is then the foundation #doing? ;-)
I think your philosophy is fundamentally flawed. No one is expecting the TDF to port LibreOffice to Solaris. If Oracle is not stubborn/stupid enough and knows how to cut loss (re OpenOffice.org and vis-a-vis the old Sun), and is willing to look into the future and fully embrace LibreOffice, then (& probably only then) we will see a LibreOffice port for Solaris. The so-called OpenSolaris community has been spoiled by Sun, and the fact will be, if Oracle does not do the Solaris port (for LibreOffice), no one else will. I will give it a try, but I doubt I will have much success. When I become comfortable with LibreOffice, which will be available in every major OS except Solaris, then even I will be completely moving away from Solaris. Either way, I am seeing this a new dawn, a new opportunity--finally we have a chance to reboot perhaps "the" most important project in the open source world. > The following comment was cc'd from the GullFoss > Forum, in case my posting was rejected: > > " > > I am unable to install OOo 3.3RC5 in the > just-released Oracle Solaris 11 Express. I have no > problem installing it in Ubuntu. And I was able to > install one of the previous RC's in Solaris 10u9 > (with some tweaks, but they didn't work with Solaris > 11 Express). > > Could someone please look into this matter? I know, > from my past experience, that the OpenOffice team > doesn't really care about the Solaris port, but it is > terribly embarrassing that Solaris 11 is the only > mainstream OS that has conflict with OpenOffice. > > I also want to add that, as a contrast, the > VirtualBox developers must have worked diligently > with their Solaris colleagues in that the most recent > version of VB 3.2.10 guest addition is now almost > seamlessly built into the Solaris Express LiveCD. > Perhaps Chairman Larry should seriously considering > giving up on OpenOffice.org and fully embracing > LibreOffice. No use piling more chips when you got > a bad hand. > > cc to OpenSolaris Discuss Forum " -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
