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

I looked at Wine about 8 years ago in order to run the very few 
proprietary apps I needed on Linux.  I haven't looked at it lately, but 
back then, it seemed that the wine devs were focused on getting 
proprietary games working, not apps such as ms Access.  I gave up on 
wine when the equivalent Linux native apps that I needed became 
available.  'Tis better to go native than to emulate.  I never did use 
their mailing list, if they even had one back then.  So I can't vouch 
for their "rudeness factor".
Girvin Herr


On 04/20/2014 05:21 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> 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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