I just got the .deb packages from their site, running smoothly on my Ubuntu 10.10 system.<div><br></div><div>Also, I don't know much about MySQL, but isn't it the industry standard for web hosting databases etc.?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Lennart Sorensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 05:59:09PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:<br>
> This, too, is not terribly encouraging of optimism today :-(<br>
> <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/411570/" target="_blank">http://lwn.net/Articles/411570/</a><br>
><br>
> But it may be reason to stand behind The Document Foundation...<br>
> <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/" target="_blank">http://www.documentfoundation.org/</a><br>
><br>
> I've got a machine pulling down the source code:<br>
><br>
> git clone git://<a href="http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libreoffice/build" target="_blank">anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libreoffice/build</a><br>
> ./autogen.sh --with-git --with-num-cpus=2<br>
> ./download<br>
> make<br>
><br>
> That "download" step is a doozy, paralleling the whole "how many repos<br>
> am I cloning?!?!??!" characteristic of doing a build of Android. The<br>
> code's pullable, in any case...<br>
<br>
</div>So how much of what Oracle bought will survive Oracle's treatment of it?<br>
<br>
I think they may find that they have nothing left in the end the way<br>
they are going about things.<br>
<br>
Of course I am personally hoping Oracle succeeds at killing off Java.<br>
I am pretty indefferent about the survival of Solaris and MySql. Actually<br>
I am probably pretty indefferent about the survival of openoffice too<br>
for that matter. I despise office suites, and openoffice is one of the<br>
worse ones.<br>
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