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

Bruce

On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 12:28 +1000, Bruce Carlson wrote: 

> HI,
>
> I agree with Tom.
> It is difficult to get IT people who have never worked with anything other than MS products to 
> accept that there is a better alternative, especially younger IT staff. Older IT workers have 
> mostly had experience with Unix based operating systems, word processors, spread sheet and 
> drawing / presentation applications long before MS even existed so are aware that better 
> alternatives do exist.
> However in my organisation I have been successful in getting almost everyone including young IT 
> MS orientated staff to use Firefox as their preferred browser and I now have a small following of 
> execs and senior staff who prefer to use Libre Office because of it's greater functionality and 
> ease of use but because of company policy, must also have MS office installed on their machines.
> The long term goal is to demonstrate to the senior management the false economy of making 
> everyone install MS office as this is an expense the company can do without.
> Except for development environments, I personally have only one MS application running on my work 
> machines and that is Outlook.
>
> Keep demonstrating the advantages of these alternatives and you will win through in the end. 
> Little by little.

An possible replacement for Outlook might be Thunderbird.


> Bruce Carlson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2011 10:14 AM
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: 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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