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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."

3 of 87 comments (clear)

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.