Re: [libreoffice-users] New article about LO and OOo

The eWeek Linux e-newsletter has an article for

    "LibreOffice, The Document Foundation Mark First Anniversary"

http://web.eweek.com/t?r=2&c=45439&l=54&ctl=13A790:91D0536A255EC8E5AA35B7A6F056437A&; 
<http://web.eweek.com/t?r=2&c=45439&l=54&ctl=13A790:91D0536A255EC8E5AA35B7A6F056437A&;>

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Yes, as long as the good work goes out and people see that LO is there 
and is a good alternative to MSO.

I went online and OOo is still showing 3.3.0, just like it had when LO's 
3.3.0 beat them to that version number.  I did not see any info for any 
release above that.  If there would be any updates, it would say .01 or 
.1 after 3.3, but that was not there.

As for Ubuntu 11.xx, it seems to install the highest resolution of the 
graphics card instead of the largest resolution that the monitor does.  
I found out that when I tried to install 11.04.  I may see if my CRT 
monitor will work with that resolution and then install 11.10 and reduce 
the resolution to what my LCD can do..


On 10/04/2011 01:33 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> LibreOffice has been pushing out upgrades not updates.  There has not been anything as small as an update for LO, it's all been a lot  substantial. 
>
> Maybe OpenOffice is putting out a few patches and bits&bobs?  I wouldn't know as the only place i 
> have OOo is on an out-of-date Fedora (which i plan to install Ubuntu 11.10 on in about a month)
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
> --- On Tue, 4/10/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>  wrote:
>
> From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] New article about LO and OOo
> To: "LibreO - Users Global"<users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 4 October, 2011, 14:16
>
>
> A new article came out with info about the differences between LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org.
>
> The problem was the author did not get all her facts straight.
>
> She calls LO and OOo the same program, but it is no longer the same.  She even states that LO programmers 
> have "removed a lot of code", so it is not the same program any more.  Actually the move to Python 
> code to replace Java changes a lot as well.   Sure it looks similar, but that does not make it the same.  I 
> can get Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian to look the same but I do not think you can call them the same either, even 
> though they are related and came from the same original code base.
>
> She also states OOo has picked up on its updates, but I just looked and it still at 3.3.0 for its offered 
> download from its site.  So if it was at 3.3.0 in the spring and in the fall it is the same, I do not think 
> it "has picked up on its updates".  LO has gone from 3.3.0 to 3.3.4 and to 3.4.3 since spring.
>
> At least she does state that "most people" agree that LO is the better of the two, and she 
> recommends it to her listeners.
>
> It is good that we have another article stating that people prefer LO over OOo, but I wish she 
> would get all of her facts straight.
> ------------------------------------------
>
> http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=11474&utm_medium=nl&utm_source=totd&utm_content=2011-10-04-article-1&utm_campaign=end-b&page=3<http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=11474&utm_medium=nl&utm_source=totd&utm_content=2011-10-04-article-1&utm_campaign=end-b&page=3>
> (Page 3 of 3)
> Give me LibreOffice or give me OpenOffice?
>
> [quote]
> Earlier this year, IBM encouraged Oracle to spin off OpenOffice to the Apache Software Foundation. 
> IBM has a stake in all this because its Lotus Symphony business productivity suite is based on 
> OpenOffice.
>
> The hope is that the community-driven Apache Software Foundation will do for OpenOffice what the 
> Document Foundation did for LibreOffice. That's why you may have noticed OpenOffice updates picking 
> up a bit.
> [unquote]
>
>
>
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