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From: Alexandro Colorado on 8 Feb 2010 21:12 What I feel like is that there is the mistake to think that a netbook is an internet appliance, but further from this. Basically Ubuntu is replacing free and open source software for non-free web applications. Telling people to just use Google Docs, is basically replacing applications from free to closed that might not work at all. Have you ever tried to open a complex document on google docs, with headers, index and cross reference. Or even images... it end up becoming a big mess. Ipad push the idea of using a netbook as an internet appliance but in reality, a netbook is more like a second computer for on-the road. You still need the full functionality of a desktop system. Personally I use OOo for presentations, I will definetly not use Google Docs for that, presentations in cloud systems are a real mess. I would probably recomend users to skip Ubuntu from now on, I never really liked this distro to start with. On 2/8/10, Mark C. Miller <mr.mcmiller(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:02:04 -0800, NoOp wrote: > >> On 02/08/2010 04:09 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: >>> just passing this along - I'd say from everything I'm reading that this >>> is all still way high up in the air...but here is the scuttle-but of >>> the day >>> >>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/02/few-days-ago-we-shared-word- > that.html >>> >>> Drew >> >> Don't rely on scuttle-but, instead just follow along and/or comment at: >> <https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-une- > applications> > > no scuttle-butt; nothing to follow. It's a done deal. Ubuntu UNR will > drop OOo with version 10.04. It's been posted for awhile; I posed the > article as it appeared on /. late last week here and > comp.openoffice.questions. Don't have the actual article in front of > me. Power users will just get OOo from Synaptic. I worry about first- > time Ubuntu users (which is one of the target audiences for Netbooks it > seems); will they even know OOo exists? I fear out userbase will take a > hit based on this decision. How big will be interesting to try and > gauge. Check out the article at <http://digitizor.com/2010/02/05/ > openoffice-dropped-from-ubuntu-netbook-edition-10-04/> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: jza(a)jabber.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org
From: Alexandro Colorado on 9 Feb 2010 13:21
On 2/9/10, Lars Nooden <larsnooden(a)openoffice.org> wrote: > NoOp wrote: > >> No... it's a "whiteboard" for discussion: ... the result of which >> will most likely affect the April 2010 release of Lucid UNE. > > Thanks. It was unclear the scope of the discussion and what affect it > would have. > >> ... but "optimized" for the small screen: >> http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr > > UNR is, in principle, a good idea. The devil is in the details. > 4 GB is on the edge of morbidly obese for a netbook distro. > > I haven't looked at Gnumeric in 5 years, it's gotten a stigma lately > and does not support ODF. It used to compare favorably to StarOffice, > before OOo. ODF support is must-have and it may be that OOo is the only > current option. Though there's been a lot of improvement to Koffice. I dissagree, KOffice is a much better alternative than Gnumerics - Abiword by far. Most of the ODF roundups KOffice came out really strong on adjusting to the standard. Much more advanced than Symphony, RedOffice and other apps. > /Lars > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: jza(a)jabber.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org |