OpenOffice 2.0

[JohnOfArc]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:20:26 -0800, Chuck Vose wrote:

> Installing java isn't that hard, even getting the debian parts working
> isn't tough.
> 
> http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/DebianJava.html
> 
installing certainly wasn't hard, and it seems to work (browser plugin and
some other java app I tried, but perhaps I need a later jre- as I said, I
haven't found the java requirement for OO-2. At any rate, I won't clutter
up this ng with OT problems- I'm using Sarge, though I do have a test
partition w/Ubuntu- eagerly waiting for the KDE distro ;-)

> I wonder why they chose HSQL rather than something easy like gdbm...
> 
I don't know much about gdbm, but on my system it doesn't even install a
man page, so I guessing it's the same reason(s) they didn't use Berkely db

http://dba.openoffice.org/miscellaneous/dba20.html#whynot_sleepycat