OEone and Open Office Working Together

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."

Comments

This is a good thing

[SourKAT]

I think OEOne is a pretty slick alternative desktop. And with the addition of OpenOffice.org, the future just seems a litle brighter.

On a side, I think they should not just target a particular distro (i.e., RH and Mandrake) but maybe target LSB? After all Mozilla is supposed to be platform independent, and much more so, Distro idependent.

From OEone's web site... ???

[Anonymous Coward]

Pulled off the "about us" section on the OEone web site...

"OEone has applied for seven patents on the company's unique 'balanced processing' architecture to create a barrier-to-entry from vendors using proprietary platforms."

Uhhhh... Yeah. That's interesting. Anybody know anything about this?

Re:I have a better idea

[Billly Gates]

I have been using openoffice 1.01 on win32 for several weeks and I had not even had a single crash. On my older system it is alot more quicker and efficient then staroffice 5.2.

Re:so what exactly is HomeBase?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:So... QWZX

[mz001b]

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.

Patents and segfaults. Wonderful

[borked]

This is really not what we need right now. Previous users have mentioned OpenOffice's current segfaulting behavior. Couple this with patents(!?!?) and you get a product that looks like it came out of Redmond! I'll stick with Moz and OpenOffice as separate applications. I prefer to launce a browser when I want to browse and launch an editor when I want to edit. Did anyone EVER use that silly file desktop in StarOffice 5.2? Right now, my support goes directly to the developers of Moz and OO rather than some patent-filer mooching off of the efforts of Moz's and OO's developers.

Re:I have a better idea

[mz001b]

OpenOffice needs a LOT of work before adding more cruft.

Submit bug reports detailing the problems/crashes you are having. Like many others, I don't have any stability problems. I did in earlier builds, and I submitted some bug reports. That is how things will get fixed.

Re:I have a better idea

[Idaho]

How about getting OpenOffice to run without segfaulting?

Am using Openoffice.org 1.0 exclusively on Windows and Linux since 2 months. Am not getting any segfaults. Maybe you overclocked your PC or got some bad memory banks?

The install process is too complicated (and doesn't work)

Yes, it's really hard indeed (N-O-T). './setup -net' as root, click 'next' a few times, then run $INSTALLDIR/setup as the user that wants to use Openoffice, and then you can start it using the KDE menu (or probably the Gnome menu, I suppose it supports that as well). Wow...exactly as the documentation describes you should do. Real hard, ain't it?

And "yeah but it worked for me" is no different than the standard Microsoft tech support answer "it's running on our systems here"

Except in this case you are the only one around here that claims to have severe problems all the time, while with Microsoft they are generally the only ones claiming NOT to have problems with their own products.

Any program that segfaults is broken.

I agree in general, but I know from personal experience that broken or overclocked hardware can cause this as well. I don't think Openoffice.org belongs in the category that 'falls apart at the slightest nudge', as you so eloquently put it.

Just my 2 cents, ofcourse :)

Re:so what exactly is HomeBase?

[Michael Wardle]

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.

libraries is what I meant

[Trepidity]

I personally run Enlightenment 16.5, and don't use either KDE or GNOME, but I still need to have all the KDE and GNOME libraries to run the apps I use. And the libraries (libgnome, libkde, etc.) constitute at least 70% or so of KDE and GNOME's size.