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Intel Joins LibreOffice
New submitter dgharmon writes "The month of February is a month to remember for the LibreOffice project. They formally incorporated the foundation in Berlin, released 3.5 with major changes and now Intel is joining the foundation as a member. Intel will also make available the LibreOffice for Windows from SUSE in Intel AppUp center. Intel AppUp Center is an online repository designed for Intel processor-based devices."
FTW!
(fuck Oracle)
1) Trying to update it. The updater complains about the quickstarter still running and it exits. It doesn't tell you what that is, or how to turn it off, or even present you with the choice of turning it off. So now what do I do? Any answer other than "Libre Office messed up the update process" is why Apple has too much money while the open source geeks are perceived as smelly losers.
2) Try to use Writer as anything more than a notepad? Forget it. I loaded our company's template that uses heading styles. It already had four headings which Writer numbers automatically 1 2 3 4. Fine. So I add another heading, expecting it to be "5". Is it 5? Of course not. Writer numbers my new heading as "2" with not a damn thing I can do about it. Does no one check the code for basic things here?
3) Try to use the export as PDF? You better check that PDF because if you think that in 2012 we are 20 years beyond WYSIWYG, think again. Export as PDF exported a mess with every single letter replaced with various-sized dots. Jesus wept, my Commodore 64 running GEOS outperforms that. And don't you DARE say there's something wring with my system becasue using a PDF print driver worked flawlessly.
So Intel, what are you gonna do about this?
Mostly random stuff.
It is also included with AMD netbooks so its not Intel only either as it came with my EEE 1215B. its not bad but I have a question: Dear Linux community, you guys WANT to gain share...right? You WANT people to actually use Linux, to spread the wealth of FOSS software, to have more and more people have real choices...yes? Am I right?
Then why in the hell are you not getting behind ExpressGate/Splashtop? Its fucking brilliant! The most innovative thing I've seen come from FOSS and you are just ignoring it? WTF? Why aren't you sending emails and letters and demanding all OEMs include this wonderful thing? For those that haven't tried it here is how it works: you have two buttons, one starts regular Windows, the other ExpressGate which we'll call EG. Now you push the Windows button you are looking at a bare minimum 45 seconds and that is if you used hibernate, with EG? 6 seconds cold boot. Now lets talk battery life, Win 7 HP X64 gets right at 6 hours on my 6 cell, if I use Brazos tweaker to lower the voltage I can squeeze it to 6:45, now how does that compare to EG? Over 7 hours with no tweaking. Now lets talk intuitive, if you know Windows you know Win 7, the search box is a big help but otherwise it hasn't really changed much. EG has a top row of tabs where everything is VERY logically laid out, you got games, video, audio, the appstore (yes they have an App store and its nice), and system. hell my mother could work this thing. it can also access media on your hard drive if you wish so you can still have all those tunes and videos you may have on your Windows partition in EG but again with better battery life as it seems to load as much as it can in memory and then shut down the HDD, this of course is smart as RAM takes the same power empty or full.
So here is your shot community, quit trying to rip off Windows (or more often the Macintosh) and simply route AROUND Windows instead. This is a way that every OEM could supply a FOSS OS to the masses WITHOUT the hassles of dual booting WITHOUT any "update foo broke my drivers" crap, hell you don't even really need CLI at all unless you want to script something. all you need to do is port plenty of apps to run with the EG/ST UI and pressure OEMs which frankly shouldn't be a hard sell as its a pretty simple setup, a little ROM, a little HDD space for extra apps, and a button. That's it! It probably costs less than 50c to add that feature to the bulletpoints on a unit. So C'mon Linux community, you finally have a winner if you would just step up. it has everything users want, its fast, its intuitive, it gets great battery life, its easy.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I've been watching Intel since the 1970's, and I've been impressed with their technical skill and business judgment. I didn't like what the Wintel duopoly did for computing/science/culture, but it made Intel rich. When Andy Grove canned employees at Intel Supercomputing for using Apples, I took it to mean that he believed that his company's future was tied to Microsoft.
Do you think the decision to join LibreOffice was made at the highest level at Intel? If so, I think it is an important shift.