Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

Hi :)
It might be worth contacting the IT Staff that are going to install the systems 
and make the point that your work requires using specialist software or 
something or that you prefer using Firefox because it's safer and faster than 
Internet Explorer and you feel the same way about Office.  


It takes a lot of luck to find the right angle but it would be great if you 
could get Firefox and LibreOffice installed alongside whatever they are told  to 
force you to use.  Firefox has built a strong reputation for being low-maintance 
and popular so the IT guys might be happy to let you install that and then 
LibreOffice is "similar" but just not as famous yet.  Perhaps other people at 
work might be happy to join in kicking up a fuss about getting Firefox on their 
machines too.  


You might like this article
http://www.computerworld.dk/art/118467/
or translated to English ... 
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=da&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworld.dk%2Fart%2F118467%2F>

There are other articles on 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_In_The_Press
but it's not very comprehensive or up-to-date.  There are just tooo many 
articles out there so it's better to use a search engine if you want to find 
articles.  

Regards from
Tom :)



________________________________
From: Don Parris <parrisdc@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 6 September, 2011 23:23:28
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Libre Office be installed on an external 
drive. ?

On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 22:01, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> I think you are looking for
> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/portable/
> but it only works on Windows machines.
>
> On linux machines you will probably find that LibreOffice is already
> installed
> although some have stayed with OpenOffice.  You are more likely to be
> allowed to
> install LibreOffice directly onto a Gnu&Linux machine if it doesn't already
> have
> it.  You do soemtimes find kiosk machines that wont let you install
> anything but
> generally  multi-user Gnu&Linux machines have much less need to be
> locked-down
> than Windows machines so you should be able to install LibreOffice
> reasonably
> easily.
Thanks for that, Tom.  I actually have a situation in which this is going to
be useful.  I have been exploring some of the other portable apps as well.
My workplace is going to soon roll out new systems, and I understand they
are being locked down in terms of what can be installed on them.  I have had
OOo/LO on my box for several years, and know that they are talking about not
allowing other programs to be installed beyond what they specify.

While I understand their concerns, I absolutely find working with MS Office
to be mostly just awful.  OK, Excel is not bad, but Word, well... I just
can't take it.  Anyway, Portable Apps gives me the ability to use LO without
having to install it.  There is also the portable VirtuaWin, which lets me
have my virtual desktops in their Windows environment.

The bottom line?  I feel much more at home at work now.  :-)


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