On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 15:02 +0100, A.Muller wrote: > Hello everybody ! > I've been monitoring this mailing list for a couple of months and > received answers to my questions about OO. Thanks to the benefactors. > My experience with OO goes back to 2005 and I'm very satisfied with it. > Now I would like to cross the Rubicon and eliminate, gradually, XP from > my machine. I've read many posts relating this or that bug/difficulty of > OO with some specific distributions of Linux. In your experience, which > one would be the best to start with among the different distros : > Mandriva, Ubuntu, Suse, Debian or whatever ? Thank you for your advice.
Generally, OpenOffice.org works fine with all distributions alike - some versions may have glitches on some distributions, but that doesn't guarantee that other versions won't have glitches on other distributions. Your distribution choice depends on your needs: I usually deploy CentOS to my desktop constumers, because it has a long living support (6 years or so, because it's a clone of a commercially supported RHEL). CentOS has excellent community support. Those who need more up-to-date software usually opt for Open SuSE, which is desktop friendly. Its OpenOffice distribution is enhanced by Novell's gizmos. Of course, many people will advise Ubuntu. Their community support has quantity but sometimes seems to lack on quality. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure they ship vanilla OOorg. It's all personal preference. I maintain desktop Linux machines in several firms, and most of my customers had best user experiences with CentOS and Open SuSE. Good luck shifting to Linux! Dejan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
