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OEone and Open Office Working Together

Posted by Hemos on from the integration dept.

Mike Potter writes "OEone and OpenOffice.org have announced a new partnership that will see the two groups work together to bring OpenOffice applications to OEone HomeBase and see the Mozilla calendar data integrated into the OpenOffice suite. OEone is hard at work getting a version of HomeBase running on RedHat 7.3 and Mandrake, with help from open source developers."

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  1. MozillaZine Story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    MozillaZine has an article about this with a few more details.

  2. Re:This is a good thing by Russellkhan · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, Their FAQ says they're working on a version that will work on RedHat 7.3 and that is LSB compliant, so if I'm figuring right, that should mean it would work on other LSB compliant distros.

    Russ

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  3. Re:so what exactly is HomeBase? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a desktop written in Mozilla for the kiosk, granny-idiot market. It runs atop Redhat 7.3 right now, and (from the site) contains an Internet browser, Multi-account e-mail, Business-card" style address book, Flexible calendar, Fully-featured word processor, Multimedia Centre, Settings menu, Personal Portal.

  4. Re:So... QWZX by mz001b · · Score: 5, Informative
    Will they actually FIX the bugs in OpenOffice such that it won't core dump when I try and open a simple Excel file?

    have you submitted a bug report, including the excel file that causes it to crash? This is the way things get fixed. They cannot fix the bug if they don't know about it.

  5. Re:From OEone's web site... ??? by officeboy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well this is all I can find for OEONE, Don't know if it means anything, all this patent stuff is just way to vague sounding to me.

  6. Re:I have a better idea by woogieoogieboogie · · Score: 2, Informative
    I have also been experimenting with OO 1.0 and have found it to be extremely usable and stable on a win 32 platform.

    From what I have seen so far from 00 1.0, I might actually be able to bring this to the boss as a BETTER solution than MS Word.

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  7. Re:I have a better idea by Pretzalzz · · Score: 2, Informative

    So why don't you just use "apt-get install openoffice.org"? I assure you that it is just as easy as apt-get install koffice. The debian maintainers have cut the per-user install down to ~1.3MB which isn't absurd and based on a search of my home directory kde, and netscape[two programs I don't use] created similarly sized .<config> directories. It is currently in debian's incoming ftp section and should hit unstable any day now or if you are impatient use:

    deb http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openo ffice/ testing main contrib

  8. Re:so what exactly is HomeBase? by Michael+Wardle · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the OEone download page states clearly that its OEone HomeBase Desktop product requires Red Hat Linux 7.1 or 7.2, and will only install on those versions. I tried to run the install script on a Red Hat 7.3 box and was told my operating system was currently unsupported. The FAQ confirms same.