[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Bsd
Le 12/05/11 17:17, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi all, A recent posting on the dev list by a user attempting to install the BSD port, through the use of the ports system, i.e. building, compiling, etc has indicated that it does not necessarily install as easily as one might think. However, BSD installable packages can be found : http://files.bsdroot.lv/my/FreeBSD/office-amd64/ http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-current/editors/libreoffice-3.3.0_1.tbz and also via the following command : portmaster -x libreoffice I will have to see if I can set up a BSD machine on some old machine laying around not doing much and try it out. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Bsd
Hi :) Fantastic! Thanks for checking that. I gather that it's usually fairly easy to install but occasionally people stumble into some weird problems for no readily apparent reason. Much the same as installs to any other OS really. However it seems that Bsd users are often more experienced and able to fix simpler problems themselves so we might not be hearing about all the problems and just get the toughest ones. I tend to send Bsd people straight to the devs list because hardly anyone on the users or marketing lists has a clue about Bsd. I don't think you should install Bsd yourself except that it's interesting to explore and can lead to much greater understanding of your preferred OS too. Good luck and many regards from Tom :) From: Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com To: marketing@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 12 May, 2011 16:44:24 Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Bsd Le 12/05/11 17:17, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi all, A recent posting on the dev list by a user attempting to install the BSD port, through the use of the ports system, i.e. building, compiling, etc has indicated that it does not necessarily install as easily as one might think. However, BSD installable packages can be found : http://files.bsdroot.lv/my/FreeBSD/office-amd64/ http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-current/editors/libreoffice-3.3.0_1.tbz and also via the following command : portmaster -x libreoffice I will have to see if I can set up a BSD machine on some old machine laying around not doing much and try it out. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Bsd
Hi Alex; On 05/12/2011 08:44 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 12/05/11 17:17, Tom Davies a écrit : ...However, BSD installable packages can be found : http://files.bsdroot.lv/my/FreeBSD/office-amd64/ http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-current/editors/libreoffice-3.3.0_1.tbz Just to be clear: if anything were to find its way into LibO marketing doc, it should steer users towards official packages (e.g. the second url above). Even then, at that point, we should be listing the port, as well as, the package repository and -of course- for each distro. grin For marketing collateral such as inserts flyers, that level of detail shouldn't be necessary. It is important, however, to reference availability on BSD in the same way it is important to dot our i's and cross our t's. BSD is a foundational community within the F/OSS ecosystem. Not mentioning it would be... odd. and also via the following command : portmaster -x libreoffice I will have to see if I can set up a BSD machine on some old machine laying around not doing much and try it out. Alex -Craig -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Bsd
Le 12/05/11 17:58, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Fantastic! Thanks for checking that. I gather that it's usually fairly easy to install but occasionally people stumble into some weird problems for no readily apparent reason. Much the same as installs to any other OS really. However it seems that Bsd users are often more experienced and able to fix simpler problems themselves so we might not be hearing about all the problems and just get the toughest ones. I tend to send Bsd people straight to the devs list because hardly anyone on the users or marketing lists has a clue about Bsd. Yes, most people using BSD already know what they are doing. The forum discussions for FreeBSD and PC-BSD are also at hand for people having problems. I don't think you should install Bsd yourself except that it's interesting to explore and can lead to much greater understanding of your preferred OS too. Oh, I'm not worried about that, I've run various versions of BSD in the past, from 5.x through to 6.x, it is actually where I started building my own stuff really for the first time in a big way, so I know what lies in store :-)). My biggest issue with it was its (at the time) poor management of disk space, if you ran out, the whole system crashed and was often left in an unrecoverable state - by UFS file system, and the fact that it wasn't very good at supporting various wifi chipsets, even after building them :-/ Hopefully things have improved now :-) OpenOffice.org ran pretty well on it too. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
