<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you for your reply. I don't have development skills myself, but I appreciate everything you guys do. I agree, including LibreOffice as an installation option is rather unusual, but Xubuntu users seem to use quite a wide range of hardware. I'm on modern hardware myself, but it would be nice to leave Abiword and Gnumeric in for users who don't have the hardware capabilities to run the LibreOffice suite.<br>
</div>Thank you Xubuntu team for all that you do.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Pasi Lallinaho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pasi@shimmerproject.org" target="_blank">pasi@shimmerproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Including LibreOffice in the Xubuntu
seed has been discussed numeours of times and the team has always
decided to include it. At the moment we're preparing an LTS
release with many more things to do, which are also much more
important to do than prepare and execute LibreOffice integration.<br>
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From my point of view, including LibreOffice on the ISO for
optional installation is really close to just installing it, and I
don't know why we would like to do the latter. On the other hand,
being installable is really close to what we have now: the whole
suite is in the repositories for installation already.<br>
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All that being said, LibreOffice won't be in Xubuntu 14.04, even
as an installation option.<br>
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What's the situation after the LTS release? I don't know. If you
really think it's a better fit for Xubuntu, start preparing a
specification that covers questions about suitability, lightness,
etc. The Strategy Document has a full and pretty thorough section
about seeds and composition [1]. More importantly, be ready to
*do* something, not expect others to do it for you: the team
hasn't been interested enough now to integrate LibreOffice, so it
is highly likely that even if you got the team convinced Xubuntu
should have LibreOffice, you probably still need to work, or get
somebody to work on it.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Pasi<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/StrategyDocument#Seeds_.26_Composition" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/StrategyDocument#Seeds_.26_Composition</a><br>
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<div>LibreOffice in Xubuntu seems a good idea to me. The only
disadvantage I can think of, is that the iso probably won't
fit on a 1 GB USB memory stick anymore. <br>
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But 1 GB memory sticks have gone the way of the dinosaurs a
long time ago, so that's no real problem, I think. Heck, I
myself probably can't even find the 1 GB stick that I still
have somewhere.... :-)<br>
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Regards, Pjotr.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">We're discussing changing to libreoffice,
since abiword is generally rather unstable. You could use
a custom ISO maker to replace the parts manually.</div>
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Joel Ewing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:physicsshark3@gmail.com" target="_blank">physicsshark3@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div>Hello,<br>
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I am wondering if including an option to
install LibreOffice during the Xubuntu
installation (in place of or alongside
Abiword and Gnumeric) could be considered
for an upcoming release of Xubuntu.<br>
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Recently, I was part of a group to decide
what Linux distribution should be chosen to
run on a fleet of old laptops that were
owned by a school. I suggested Xubuntu, but
my suggestion was ignored partly because
Xubuntu does not come with LibreOffice.
Although Abiword and Gnumeric are great at
what they do, many users seem to gravitate
towards LibreOffice because it is more
fully-featured. I would appreciate if the
developers could look into this matter.<br>
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