Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Bryen <suseROCKS@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 20:21 +0100, jdd wrote:
> Aniruddha wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:01 -0500, Bryen wrote:
>
> > > OpenSuse has alot of packages right out of the box.  But, SLED is
> > > stripped down to only support the needs of a typical corporate
> > > environment.
>
> and, may be the most important, the support of Novell is for all the 
> included packages, not only the kernel :-). Of course, Novell can't 
> support the many packages openSUSE hold.
>
> > > serious compatibility issues with MS documents.  Novell has tweaked
> > > their own version of oOo to be better compatible with MS document
> > > formats, and thus less complaints from users when they can't read/break
> > > an MS document emailed to them.
>
> is that true? I wonder why, in this case, the enhancement are not 
> ported upward to ooo?
My understanding, the last time I read about this (maybe a year ago),
OpenOffice ships with macros disabled, whereas Novell ships with macros
enabled.  That's more of a philosophical difference than a technical
difference.  In which case, philosophies aren't upstreamed to the main
project.  It is more like a fork, although I wouldn't exactly call
Novell's OpenOffice a fork like other OpenOffice products that are out
there.
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---Bryen---

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