[libreoffice-marketing] Re: LibreOffice runs on the Raspberry Pi, with the right license

I am not the only one on these lists that is looking into the Raspberry 
Pi and its Raspbian OS [Debian fork to work on the RPi].

I have not bought it yet, but it would be nice to know and "talk to" 
anyone who has bought this super small format computer.  For about $35 
USD, plus a Class 4-10 SD card, you have a computer than can use a HDMI 
Monitor or TV, USB keyboard/mouse, and USB Hard drive with a powered 
hub.  It seems to be designed for the Education Market or those who just 
want to "play" with an all-in-one computer.  The only real "problem" is 
the RPi has the processing power of about a 300MHz Pentium II [according 
to their site] but with a really "rad" graphics card [Blu-ray quality 
according to their site] .  So it is a little slow.

That being said, I would like to know how "well" LO works on the RPi and 
other info about that system.

Well, it is real nice that the RPi has opted to have LO on their system.
http://store.raspberrypi.com/



On 12/20/2012 06:13 AM, Italo Vignoli wrote:
> The full fledged free office suite is available on the credit card sized
> single-board computer developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation
>
> Cambridge (UK) and Berlin (Germany), December 20, 2012 - The Raspberry
> Pi Foundation (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) and The Document Foundation
> (http://www.documentfoundation.org/) announce the availability of the
> full fledged version of LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/) on the
> Raspberry Pi, the credit-card sized computer created with the intention
> of stimulating the teaching of basic computer science in schools. The
> Raspberry Pi is a little PC which plugs into a TV and a keyboard and can
> be used for many of the things that most desktop PC can do, like
> spreadsheets, word-processing and games.
>
> LibreOffice is the first comprehensive office suite to run on a 40
> dollar credit card sized PC, without any compromise on features and
> performances. LibreOffice has been ported to ARM by multiple
> contributors from Canonical, Debian and RedHat, and was packaged for the
> Raspberry Pi by Rene Engelhard as a part of his work as the Debian
> maintainer for LibreOffice.
>
> "The availability of LibreOffice, the best free office suite ever, on
> the Raspberry Pi - the most affordable PC ever, targeted to hardware and
> software enthusiasts, and schools - is extremely important for The
> Document Foundation, because it will contribute to the growth of the
> brand awareness in key market segments", comments Bjoern Michaelsen, a
> Canonical developer and a deputy member of the Board of Directors of The
> Document Foundation.
>
> "I'm very impressed that the LibreOffice team didn't have to make any
> changes to the code in order for it to compile and smoothly run on
> Raspberry Pi", said Eben Upton from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. "It's
> also great to have a comprehensive office suite available in the Pi
> Store at launch, making people even more aware of the potential of this
> device".
>
> LibreOffice is available from the Raspberry Pi Store
> (http://store.raspberrypi.com/projects/libreoffice), which is described
> here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2768 (including instructions
> on how to install it). Raspberry Pi Foundation announcement press
> release is here: http://blog.indiecity.com/?page_id=2269.
>
> UPDATE (December 20, 2012): The license blurb has been fixed, and it now
> links to the LGPLv3 text.
>
> About the Raspberry Pi
>
> The Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer, designed to fit in a pocket, and
> cheap enough to be bought with pocket money. It was developed by the
> not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge to help children
> engage with computer programming, and has won dozens of awards in its
> first year of release. Additional information at http://www.raspberrypi.org.


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