Novell OpenOffice for other distros?

[Evan Leibovitch]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:15:02AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>   
>> As some of you might know, Novell has been shipping its own version of
>> OpenOffice,[...]
>> Is anyone here aware of any work to repackage this for other distros?
>>     
>
> Well Debian has 2.2.1 in unstable and 2.3.0~oog680m1 in experimental.
>   
Those are the 'official'  stream.
Novell is still numbering its current release as 2.1
http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/ooo.html

> They also tend to be good at picking up fixes for OOo, including many
> they have come up with themselves.  (I believe debian was the first to
> really have OOo working properly for multiple users with a single
> installation without having to run the setup program for each user.)
>   
That could be interesting, and would give us _three_ different feature-sets:
- the 'official' one from OOo
- Novell Edition
- Debian Edition


- Evan
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