The openoffice-writer is actually just a headless version of OpenOffice that will handle conversions of files such as Word, Excel, or RTF to work with the fax gateway. No GUI, just shell scripts.
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Holloway [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 5:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Determining Exact Linux Version Actually, they didn't actually claim what distro they've spun off. Although they explicitly support RHEL from about 5.1 up, EPEL is also good for CentOS, and for all I know, SuSe. But pbone is, like EPEL, extensions outside the main distro trunk. When I searched it for OpenOffice-writer, what I got were version 2.x releases for ArkLinux and for TurboLinux. You wouldn't want any of those. Actually, I have serious misgivings about running OpenOffice in Amazon's cloud. For one thing, I have serious misgivings about running ANY X GUI-based stuff from the cloud, between the firewall considerations and the likelihood that performance is likely to be disappointing. It's rather telling that they didn't include it as part of their base repo. If I wanted cloud-based document editing, I'd be more inclined to go with Google Docs and leave the cloud for webapp servers and back-office batch processes. Tim --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
