Re: [libreoffice-users] LO for Chrome OS - i.e. Samsung Chrome Book

Hi :(
Dohhhh!!!  Yes, being for Windows-only is a bit of a blocker!!  Sorry
Tim@KrackedPress!! :((  I thought it was an easy answer and ended up being
quite rude.  Many apologies for those posts!

Wine can be really annoying and their mailing-lists and help system tends
to be extremely rude to people.  I get the impression there is some prize
for "rudest answer to a legit question".  To be fair they do get swamped
with really badly written questions and there is such a huge difference
between each release that they really need to know which version, which
hardly anyone realises when they first post.

The only other way that i could see would be a huge amount of work
http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud
Has anyone here tried this yet?  Is it as horribly complicated as it
sounds?

Regards from
Tom :)



On 19 April 2014 13:01, <libreoffice-ml.mbourne@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

> Tom Davies wrote:
>
> > Hi :)
> >  From the "Portable Apps"
> > http://portableapps.com/
> > http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app
>
> As far as I'm aware, the Portable Apps builds only run on Windows. From
> the above link (http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app):
> "A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you
> on a portable device and use on any Windows computer."
>
> http://portableapps.com/download mentions:
> "Also Works With: Linux, Unix, BSD, etc via Wine & Mac OS X via CrossOver,
> Wineskin, WineBottler, PlayOnMac"
> i.e. a Windows emulator or compatibility layer is needed for other
> platforms.
>
>  "A portable app works from any device (..., cloud drive, ..., etc)" but
> > i've never heard from anyone who has tried installing their portable apps
> > to a Cloud.  Each Chromebook links to it's own Cloud space doesn't it?
>
> I think that's referring to the fact they don't have to be installed on
> the local PC's hard disk. You can "install" them on a flash drive, cloud
> storage, etc. and then run them from there on any Windows PC.
>
>  Note there are a few caveats
> > http://portableapps.com/support/libreoffice_portable#additional_options
> >
> > Also i suspect that the WinPenPack probably offers a similar option but
> > they don't go on about it as much.  The advantage with WinPenPack is that
> > they tend to get each release of LibreOffice out there quickly and they
> > don't skip any releases.
>
> I'm not so familiar with that one, but the name suggests it may also be
> Windows-only. The installation instructions are certainly focussed on
> Windows, and http://www.winpenpack.com/en/e107_plugins/faq/faq.php?0.
> cat.5.24 again suggests the need for Wine to run under Linux.
>
>  Wrt Chromium, my understand was that Chrome was the OS and Chromium was
> > the
> > web-browser but apparently it's not quite as simple as that;
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29
>
> It is rather confusing that they use the same name for the OS and web
> browser! I guess they want people to forget about the distinction between
> locally installed and web applications, and between files stored on their
> own computer and files stored on the cloud. Chromium web browser and
> Chromium OS are the parts they released as open source, and use as the
> basis for the Google Chrome web browser and Chrome OS.
>
>  Regards from
> > Tom :)
>
> Mark.
>
>
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