Hi :( Dohhhh!!! Yes, being for Windows-only is a bit of a blocker!! Sorry Tim@KrackedPress!! :(( I thought it was an easy answer and ended up being quite rude. Many apologies for those posts!
Wine can be really annoying and their mailing-lists and help system tends to be extremely rude to people. I get the impression there is some prize for "rudest answer to a legit question". To be fair they do get swamped with really badly written questions and there is such a huge difference between each release that they really need to know which version, which hardly anyone realises when they first post. The only other way that i could see would be a huge amount of work http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud Has anyone here tried this yet? Is it as horribly complicated as it sounds? Regards from Tom :) On 19 April 2014 13:01, <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) >> From the "Portable Apps" >> http://portableapps.com/ >> http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app >> > > As far as I'm aware, the Portable Apps builds only run on Windows. From > the above link (http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app): > "A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you > on a portable device and use on any Windows computer." > > http://portableapps.com/download mentions: > "Also Works With: Linux, Unix, BSD, etc via Wine & Mac OS X via CrossOver, > Wineskin, WineBottler, PlayOnMac" > i.e. a Windows emulator or compatibility layer is needed for other > platforms. > > "A portable app works from any device (..., cloud drive, ..., etc)" but >> i've never heard from anyone who has tried installing their portable apps >> to a Cloud. Each Chromebook links to it's own Cloud space doesn't it? >> > > I think that's referring to the fact they don't have to be installed on > the local PC's hard disk. You can "install" them on a flash drive, cloud > storage, etc. and then run them from there on any Windows PC. > > Note there are a few caveats >> http://portableapps.com/support/libreoffice_portable#additional_options >> >> Also i suspect that the WinPenPack probably offers a similar option but >> they don't go on about it as much. The advantage with WinPenPack is that >> they tend to get each release of LibreOffice out there quickly and they >> don't skip any releases. >> > > I'm not so familiar with that one, but the name suggests it may also be > Windows-only. The installation instructions are certainly focussed on > Windows, and http://www.winpenpack.com/en/e107_plugins/faq/faq.php?0. > cat.5.24 again suggests the need for Wine to run under Linux. > > Wrt Chromium, my understand was that Chrome was the OS and Chromium was >> the >> web-browser but apparently it's not quite as simple as that; >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29 >> > > It is rather confusing that they use the same name for the OS and web > browser! I guess they want people to forget about the distinction between > locally installed and web applications, and between files stored on their > own computer and files stored on the cloud. Chromium web browser and > Chromium OS are the parts they released as open source, and use as the > basis for the Google Chrome web browser and Chrome OS. > > Regards from >> Tom :) >> > > Mark. > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
