On 4/27/05, Joe Morris (NTM) <Joe_Morris@ntm.org> wrote:
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 12:10 -0700, Preston Crawford wrote:
Especially with regards to problems with OpenOffice 2.0 (which last I heard is still beta). Putting major versions of software like this into the distro when their beta seems like a bad idea. And people are having problems with it.
I wanted to point out that, while OOo 2.0 is beta, you can easily download the latest batch of rpms i.e. development versions from the website and install with your tool of choice. They even have specific rpms for suse, redhat, mandrake, and freedesktop menus (although you do have to delete the redhat and mandrake rpms in order to install). The latest release, build .95 is really pretty solid for all the basic functions in writer. I use it for school constantly. I would concur, using 1.9.95 here in 9.2 presently, and it is working
Jack Brooks wrote: pretty good for my purposes. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
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The main point is that a beta version should not have been included in SuSE 9.3 SuSE Linux has a known reputation for only including stable versions of software. Gnome 2.8 (please correct me if I have the version wrong) was not included in SuSE 9.2 because it was not in a stable release when 9.2 was officailly released. So why do it with OOo as good as the software is. Sorry but I feel this is a slippery slope. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR