[libreoffice-marketing] Bsd

Hi Craig :)
Yes, it would be great to find out if other Bsd distros are supported, if it is 
easy enough to ask them.  It would be really great if the documentation team 
were told of any results you discover, or even better if you could help them 
with the installer pages.  If you don't have time then don't worry as it is not 
crucial.  

Regards from
Tom :)




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From: C. Olofson <c.olofson@gmail.com>
To: marketing@libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 12 May, 2011 15:14:08
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Simple general LibreOffice flyer (WAS 
Re: Document Freedom Day Artwork)

Hi Marc, Tom;

I don't mean to muddy the waters unnecessarily but, in the case of *BSD, 
"support" would be more likely coming from their end and not TDF's.  Also:

   * there are a lot of unrelated *BSD's (e.g. Free-, Open- and netBSD)
   * *BSD apps aren't (normally) distributed as pre-compiled packages
     but as source to compile
   * once an app is "in the ports," it (normally) has a maintainer
     (IOW, is supported)
   * checking w/those projects will show whether LibO is supported

So, for example, to see whether an app is supported by FreeBSD, I

   * go to their central applications site: http://www.freshports.org
   * search on LibreOffice
   * find that 3.2.2 is the current ver and the "maintainer" is
     Baptiste Daroussin

I'm not as familiar with the other *BSD's but, if you want, I'll poke around to 
establish whether they are maintaining LibO and at what version.

hth,
-Craig

On 05/12/2011 04:05 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Le 2011-05-12 06:45, Tom Davies a écrit :
> > Hi :)
> >
> > Hah, i can't find it in the downloads drop-down any-more.  I'm sure it was 
> > there
> > quite recently.  There was documentation on how to install LibreOffice in Bsd
> > somewhere in documentation.  Hopefully i might get time later to try to find
> > it.  Note that no other Office Suite works on Bsd afaik so it would be quite
> > sweet to acknowledge it.
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> You may want to check on the dev list. If Bsd is officially supported, then we 
> will make adjustments to our marketing materials. It would be nice if it were 
> supported. AFAIK, there was talk of it on the dev list and some people got it to 
> work, but then the threads just died out. Maybe there were problems with getting 
> committed devs for BSD.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marc


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