OK. On Fedora, there's OOWriter, and then there's OO-headless. OOWriter is the same GUI app we all know and love, OO-headless is the part that allows it to run minus a display.
I just picked up a client who wants AWS. I'm expecting to be using RHEL, which is supposed to have those packages unless someone tinkered with it. But while I'm in there, I may nose around AMI and see what the possibilities are. Tim On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 17:43 -0500, Mike Rathburn wrote: > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
