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Google Docs Replaces OpenOffice In Ubuntu Netbook Edition

Posted by timothy on from the hope-your-connection's-up dept.

uneuser writes "Digitizor reports that the Ubuntu developers have dropped OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE) 10.04 and replaced it with Google Docs. Documents in Ubuntu Netbook Edition will now be opened in Google Docs by default."

2 of 298 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Google Docs Offline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's what Gears and HTML5 offline support are for. And it's supposed to be seamless.

    Your ass is seamless too, but shit still comes out of it.

    I'd settle for vi, emacs or even Microsoft Word, but I refuse to use Google Docs.

  2. Re:Why does OpenOffice need 350MB, anyway? by tokul · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why is "soffice.exe" 7MB in size? It's just the launcher. The work is done in "sdraw.exe", "swriter.exe", etc.

    ~$ ls -l /usr/bin/ooffice
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52 2009-07-26 14:50 /usr/bin/ooffice

    Maybe you look at the wrong file. OpenOffice files are in /usr/lib/openoffice and not in C:\Program files. soffice.bin is less than 500KB, soffice is 10KB shell script.

    sdraw and others are just launchers. OpenOffice is derived from StarOffice and StarOffice had all programs and desktop environment in one place.

    Netbooks don't need OpenOffice. Gnome Office works just fine.