On 02/10/2011 07:30 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:13 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions<[email protected]> wrote:
:
but Ubuntu used the Debian install though, until it creates their own for
their 11.04 repository.
To be precise, Debian is a Linux distribution upon which the Ubuntu
Linux distribution is based, but they are largely separate and *very*
different entities.
As such, Ubuntu uses the Debian package management system (dpkg, apt*,
etc. - as opposed to the Red Hat Package Manager rpm), but they
(Debian and dpkg) are not the same thing.
However, I get your meaning. I just found it a little confusing up
front (and was concerned that novices to Debian and/or Ubuntu might
find also find it so).
It gets more confusing soon, maybe. An article I read leaves me
wondering if Debian will be around much longer. These was talk about
their version of Linux is becoming less popular and there may be a
possibility that it will no longer be developed, or not a much or as
fast as it has been in the past.
Yes the whole deal is confusing. I use Ubuntu, but I install .deb
packages. I do not want to think about the desktop changes coming with
Ubuntu 11.04.
When people look at Linux instead of Windows for a platform, they first
wonder way it is so "difficult" to install software. We are told that
you can run a certain percentage of Windows software through WINE, but I
never got one to work correctly. Linux can be very confusing to a
Windows user.
Now back to the thread title:
I would love to see some additions to the spell checking options for
LibreOffice. I would like to see a built in dictionary function that
would allow you to look up words to see if the offered spelling is the
correct one by its definition. I just installed StarDic on my Ubuntu
desktop [Windows and Mac versions available]. It had access to many
dictionaries, thesaurus, and translation "databases" in some default
format. If you include some coding that is triggered and a window comes
up showing the dictionary based on the highlighted word in the spelling
list, then it may help. Also adding a dictionary function as an add on
would work as well. Having access to many different dictionary,
thesaurus, and translation databases that are maintained by other groups
may be a nice option. Since StarDic is under the GPL "copyleft"
license, LibreOffice may be able to get access to their coding as well
to make the process easier.
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