James Knott wrote:
Don wrote:
Ya know, this just drives home the fact of how each and every distro of linux is it's own PROPRIETARY environment...
While SuSe has a modified version of OO, there's no technical reason that the version from OpenOffice.org won't run. Also, most Linux distros are moving to LSB, so that all the relevant files etc., will be in the same place.
Here's hoping. It's been a long time since you could download and install a rpm or deb and have it run on any distro, it shouldn't be as it is now .... today on linuxtoday.com " Distributions Are Too "Alienated," Says Dell CEO" and he is not wrong. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks