Re: Why Linux distros don't carrying AOO?

2018-01-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
Arch Linux provides AOO as community package. Gentoo looks like they provide a package too. (Currently the package service is down, so I could not check their repo. I do not have any Gentoo box active at this point.) Please keep also in mind that we are recommend to download only from our site.

Re: Why Linux distros don't carrying AOO?

2018-01-14 Thread Mechtilde
Hello Rory Am 14.01.2018 um 19:15 schrieb Rory O'Farrell: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:56:32 -0800 Dave Fisher > wrote: > >> The Linux distributors made their own choice. If my recollection is >> correct some of them directly supported LibO development. > > > I felt it was

Re: Why Linux distros don't carrying AOO?

2018-01-14 Thread Mechtilde
Hello, and some more additions. it is not easy to package Apache OpenOffice under the rules of most of the distribution, like Opensuse, Fedora/CentOS Debian and Ubuntu. You have to do much work for this. Also you have to provide fixes for security and other important issues In the case of

Re: Why Linux distros don't carrying AOO?

2018-01-14 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:56:32 -0800 Dave Fisher wrote: > The Linux distributors made their own choice. If my recollection is correct > some of them directly supported LibO development. I felt it was a manifestation of the religious war that led to the LibreOffice split.

Re: Why Linux distros don't carrying AOO?

2018-01-14 Thread Dave Fisher
The Linux distributors made their own choice. If my recollection is correct some of them directly supported LibO development. I’ve been on the Tomcat users list for a decade and the experts there are really only helpful when users have installed Apache binaries and not a Linux vendor

Re: Why Linux distros don't carrying AOO?

2018-01-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
FR web forum wrote: provided as office suite in Linux repositories. It's their choice, driven by commercial interests in some cases. Since they won't do the work, we take care of it (we actually always did) by providing RPMs and DEBs that will run on most distributions. One could make a

Why Linux distros don't carrying AOO?

2018-01-14 Thread FR web forum
Hello team, Since fork, only LibO is provided as office suite in Linux repositories. Apache sets some projects like tomcat or httpd as packages. Why not for AOO? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For

Re: Organizing testing for 4.2.0

2018-01-14 Thread Driss Ben Zoubeir
Hi Kay, Hi Open Office community, my name is Driss from Munich. I started before 3 years as developer volounteer in Open Office community and successfully solved some bugs. But because of some reasons I was not able to continue. Now I have about 3hours or even more per Week to help with testing.

Re: Reporting broken download link Download fehlgeschlagen 2 x

2018-01-14 Thread Marcus
Am 13.01.2018 um 14:54 schrieb Emanuele: Marcus wrote on 05/01/18 21:35: Am 05.01.2018 um 09:17 schrieb Henner Lotz: I've tested again and also today I haven't seen a problem when downloading OpenOffice. Would you mind trying to download from the following sourceforge mirror?