LibreOffice and Canonical?

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:30 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/18/2011 04:34 PM, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:17:31 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>>
>>> On 19 April 2011 00:15, Jeffrey Needle <jeff.needle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Any idea when LibreOffice will be supported by Canonical?  I can't find
>>>> it in Synaptic.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It's the default Office app of choice in 11.04. Earlier releases will
>>> have to rely on PPAs.
>>>
>>> Al.
>>
>>
>> Thanks.  I guess I'll wait until 11.04 is released and stable.
>>
>>
>
> Why not just install it directly instead?
>
> http://www.libreoffice.org/
> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/linux/
> [Installation of LibreOffice on Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux systems]
>
> Pretty simple actually & you can still keep your existing (U)OOo version
> as well.

Unless one really wants to contribute to development and debugging by
comparing releases, I really can't understand all this fuss about
OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Since Ubuntu's OpenOffice was in fact
Go-oo and Go-oo joined forces with LibreOffice, there's no sense in
staying with "Ubuntu's  OpenOffice", it's just an older release, more
tested for sure, but perhaps more buggy.

L.

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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Platform Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux - Ubuntu