On Sun, 10 May 2009 11:58:29 +1000 Keith Bates <[email protected]> dijo:
> I uninstalled the "official" Ubuntu 9.04 version because it has a bug > that prevents it from accessing OO databases. Other distros that ship > with the non-standard version have the same issue. > > I'm back to the standard OOo downloaded from the OOo web-site. It's tempting to do that, but if I do Update Manager will constantly give me reminders that there are upgrades available. More important, last time I did that was back in the days of Gutsy. The version that came with Gutsy had a bug that caused drag and drop of text not to work. It was an obscure bug that affected only a hundred people worldwide, as far as I could tell. I installed the OOo version, and the bug remained. And the OOo version had even more bugs that the Ubuntuized version did not. In your case there is good reason to switch. I rarely need to access databases, so I have not been bitten by that particular bug. Much is made on this list of how evil the distroized versions of OOo are. There is an assumption that if you are experiencing a bug it must be the fault of <insert distro name here>, because surely if you used the official OOo version you would have no problems. But I'm here to tell you that my experience is quite different. Sometimes the distroized version does introduce bugs that are not in the OOo version. But the opposite is equally true. And more important, unlike you, I have yet to find that the OOo version fixes any bugs in the distroized version. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
