On 05/10/10 02:49, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
On Monday 04 October 2010 12:35, Mark wrote:
I'll probably put LO beta on my laptop and play with it a little before I decide. There is a caveat that LO might install over OO in this beta, but future releases won't.
The warning that LibreOffice overwrites OpenOffice only applies to Windows. On my system, LibreOffice installed itself neatly in /opt/libreoffice3.
Indeed. :-)
Redhat have stated they will support LibreOffice, but considering LibreOffice is merely a beta at the moment an early one at that, I highly doubt RH would put that into RHEL5/6, bearing in mind that RHEL is all about stability and reliability. Imagine 50 networked machines, using LibreOffice Beta, after they just added a new feature, and the new feature accidentally causes constant segfaults, it would be a disaster in an enterprise environment. :-O
I'd expect Fedora 15/16 (Possibly 14, but I think it's too far it for them to change it now, not sure though) to see LibreOffice first. Then after it'll fall into RHEL, at which point I don't know, possibly 6.2? 6.4? All depends on stability of the product, however it may not ever make it into RHEL6 and end up only in RHEL7+. As for RHEL5? I'm not sure.
But, of course all this is speculation, and could be wrong.
I too checked out LibreOffice when it was released (F12 here at the moment) I soon switched back to OpenOffice.org 3.1 though :-( but, it's an early product, you can't expect it to be perfect just yet :-). (even if it is a fork)
LibreOffice has the potential to be great, and the publicity/support they needed. Lets just hope they do just that.
Anyhow, just my 2p :-) Sorry for any spelling/grammar issues, been up all night and am tired, only coffee keeping me going right now :D.