[ale] Google to distribut StarOffice for free

[aaron]

On Tuesday 21 August 2007 09:23, James Taylor wrote:
> FYI - 
> The Novell version of OOo has the WordPerfect filters and a number of other 
enhancements, including <gag><cough> MSOffice 7 doc support.
> It's part of the openSUSE distribution, or you can download it directly from 
Novell.
> -jt
> James Taylor

Does anyone know if the Mafiavell SUSE version of OOo plays well in
legitimate Linux environments like Fedora and Ubuntu??

Does the version rely on rpm installation or does it use the standard 
OpenOffice installer??

I may not be able to use the Broken XML (docx / M$Orifice 7) ) converter
with NeoOffice on my Macs, but I have no problem using the SUSE version
if it provides a little more functionality while remaining cross-distro and 
open source.

Anyone know more details?

peace
aaron

 


> >>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at  9:15 AM, in message
> <843680.98929.qm at web38813.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Bruce
> <callmebruce2002 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> > What it might do, is make OpenOffice.Org formats more
> > prevalent. Why would a home user buy MS Office at $140
> > or so for a student version, if they can do Star
> > Office for free as part of the Google Pack.
> > 
> > I know OOo is free (and from what I'm reading here -
> > so is Star Office) - but I think the average user
> > might be more apt to install Star Office as part of
> > Google pack than go search out OOo and install it.
> > 
> > My kids all use OOo, but I'm getting tired of having
> > to save and translate docs to make sure we e-mail them
> > in MS formats. My wife uses Word Perfect - so maybe
> > the Star Office translator for Word Perfect might be a
> > good thing.
> > 
> > --- Brian Stanaland <brian.stanaland at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> If I recall correctly, Star Office for Solaris and
> >> Sun Java Desktop (Sun's
> >> Linux) are a free download from Sun.  It's also a
> >> free download for Solaris
> >> Express Community Edition which is what I'm running
> >> on my SunBlade 150 at
> >> the office.  As far as differences go, Star Office
> >> has more filters for
> >> proprietary formats than OpenOffice.org does.  I
> >> believe there is a
> >> difference in the included database but since I
> >> don't use it I can't say for
> >> sure.
> >> 
> >> Brian
> > 
> > 
> > 
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