Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

Hi, let me give my two cents:

I believe the confusion comes from the fact that the PortableApps folks 
put in their description of the LibreOffice Portable product that it 
runs from a "cloud drive" which basically just means that it can run 
from a network share. This does indeed work (and fairly well if your 
network isn't too congested) but, as others have said, this does not 
make LibreOffice Portable a "cloud" application.

Cheers,
Chris Carpenter

P.S. I put cloud in quotes because the term is being used for basically 
anything on the network anymore... I suppose my definition would be a 
massively multi-user product optimized for being deployed over the 
internet or a large network? Meh, I don't even know.

P.P.S. Also, there IS something similar for Linux, though I haven't 
tried it as all my linux machines have it installed locally. You can 
find it here: http://portablelinuxapps.org/. Web site is rather 
terrible, but it supposably works well.

On 02/03/2011 08:26 PM, Michel Gagnon wrote:
> Le 2011-02-03 17:31, Tom Davies a écrit :
> > Hi :)
> > I thought this
> > http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable
> > worked on the Cloud?
> >
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
>
>
> Does it work on the cloud? If you talk about the weather, yes.
>
> Seriously, the PortableApps application, including LibreOffice Portable
> work without formal installation. These programs also usually don't
> create any registry entries. It allows one to run programs like
> LibreOffice, Firefox or Thunderbird from a USB key. Useful, for example
> if you want to use a program on a borrowed computer. I have read a few
> times that LibreOffice Portable is very slowon a typical USB key, slower
> than the previous version of OpenOffice. It works fine from a small
> thumb drive and it's great if you use it from a customer's computer.


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