Ivan Stout wrote:
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]>wrote:
Ehr… it has OpenOffice.org 2.4…? THAT is REALLY old…
Well, I would call that a strength of FOSS . . . Maybe that is all they
needed and there was no vendor to force them to use higher hardware specs
just to support the latest version. The niche markets this is for probably
has access to no office suite, so OOo 2.4 would be a major benefit. I like
the thought that the first office suite a group of people will use will be
OOo. Maybe OOo on ARM will be a great turning point for office suite file
formats.
That said, depending on the price, I would definitely want at least one as a
TV media station. I have been waiting too long for the low power Linux ARM
devices to start pouring in. With ssh forwarding and sshfs, it really does
not matter what software the device comes with. You can use it as a proxy to
run any software you want (e.g. latest OO.org) and access any files you
have.
Anyway, I find this to be very exciting and am glad it was posted here
(since all my usual sources of this type of information appear to not have
caught on yet). Thanks!
Cheers,
Ivan
Mr. Stout,
You said "With ssh forwarding and sshfs, it really does not matter what
software the device comes with. You can use it as a proxy to run any
software you want (e.g. latest OO.org) and access any files you have."
Please would you explain this concept, if you have time and can be
bothered. Please reply only to my personal e-mail address so as not to
clutter this mail list with OT messages. Thank you.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
