Given that the Document Foundation has now split away from Oracle to continue the development of an independent office suite, do we have any idea which was CentOS and Red Hat are planning to go in this area - OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
I know that LibreOffice is not production ready yet - they only have their first beta available, but it's just a matter of (likely a short) time before the split becomes a release.
Thanks, Mark
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:20, Mark mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
Given that the Document Foundation has now split away from Oracle to continue the development of an independent office suite, do we have any idea which was CentOS and Red Hat are planning to go in this area
- OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
I know that LibreOffice is not production ready yet - they only have their first beta available, but it's just a matter of (likely a short) time before the split becomes a release.
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I would guess RedHat (and by default CentOS) will stay with OpenOffice for a while to see what a) Oracle are going to do with it b) How many people sing LibreOffice's praises Once it hits beta, I will install it to see how it goes. The way Oracle is acting towards Open Source I will likely stay with LibreOffice and also start learning PosgreSQL just so I have no Oracle products (in much the same way I have no M$ products (in my personal life))... John
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:26 AM, John Kennedy skebi69@gmail.com wrote:
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Once it hits beta, I will install it to see how it goes.
It's in beta right now, but I think the beta is the same as OO 3.3 beta - they haven't progressed past the next release, which is common to both Oracle and the DF.
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.
Mark
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:35:46AM -0700, Mark wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:26 AM, John Kennedy skebi69@gmail.com wrote:
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Once it hits beta, I will install it to see how it goes.
Quote from Distrowatch:
"The Document Foundation is a newly founded organisation with a mission - to make an office suite available as truly free software, developed within the wider community. Supported by companies like Google, Novell and Red Hat, the Foundation has forked the Oracle-owned OpenOffice.org software and created LibreOffice. Worries about Oracle's commitment to OpenOffice have persisted within the OpenOffice.org community since the company's acquisition of Sun Microsystems." Several distributions, including Fedora and Ubuntu, have already indicated that their future releases will ship with LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.org.
The part within quotation marks is from the documentfoundation.org's site, I think--if one pokes around the site, Jan Wildeboer of RH explicitly says RH is proud to join the effort. What this means for RH 6, I have no idea, nor if they're planning to drop it into RH 5.
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.
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.
Given that the Document Foundation has now split away from Oracle to continue the development of an independent office suite, do we have any idea which was CentOS and Red Hat are planning to go in this area
- OpenOffice or LibreOffice?
I know that LibreOffice is not production ready yet - they only have their first beta available, but it's just a matter of (likely a short) time before the split becomes a release.
Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Mariadb (http://mariadb.org/) seems to have the same purpose with MySQL. Is that going to replace MySQL in future releases?
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