[odf-discuss] Re: [Noooxml] Fwd: [odfsig] MAMPU Migrates to OpenOffice.org

[Alberto Barrionuevo]

Hi Jan,

El Wednesday 19 March 2008 15:00:13 Jan Wildeboer escribió:
> > witch distros? (at least witch of the popular ones?)
>
> - SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server)
> - SLED (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop)
> - OpenSuSE
>
> I am not sure how Alborto comes to the conclusion that "most Linux
> Distros" ship Novell Office, IMHO it is simply not true.
>
[sorry, for being late, I suffered a non-computer virus]
With my current info at least (K)Ubuntu 7.10 is releasing the Novell built 
(but not identified as it). Probably Debian also (I've heard this, but not 
tested).

I'm using Kubuntu in a desktop right now and I'm reporting problems to the 
OOo-es mail list, and the problems that I'm reporting are not happening in 
the official OOo build (serious memory problems with xorg are the most 
important -for example when using background images/watermarks-).

I haven't info about Mandriva, but, yes, I had info about Red Hat and Fedora 
(that were shipping the correct one ;o)

So it seems that the problems are in the SuSE derivatives and in the Debian 
ones (but for example, most of Spanish governmental distributions are based 
on Debian or Debian derivatives, and the non-Debian ones are based on SuSE).

> Due to the patent issues etc. most distros will NOT ship Novell stuff.

Yes, this actually is the real concern. But also is that the go-oo build is 
not working fine and creating bad publicity to the whole OOo project, because 
people usually doesn't distinguish between go-oo and the real OOo.

Saludos,
-- 
Alberto Barrionuevo
President FFII
www.ffii.org