-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: miércoles 5 de julio de 2000 12:52
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office 5.2
On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> The one thing about Windows that I liked more than in Linux was
> installing programs. If you are honest most will admit that installing
> programs in Linux can be both fustrating and exasperating.
> Well someone has at last shown a light at the end of the tunnel.
> Sun has released Star Office 5.2. I download it for both Windows and
for
> Linux. Yesterday I installed in Win2000 and today I decided to try the
> install in Linux, hoping that it would not require to much hair pulling.
> Do you know what I had to do to get Star Office to install in Linux? I
> had to click on the file. It actually had it's own installation program
and
> installed itself. The GUI was even the same as that used in the Win
> installation. I was shocked. Happy but shocked. I had never before seen a
> Linux program do this.
> My one hope now is that more companies and developers will follow Sun's
> example and treat Linux users with the same degree of concern and support
as
> they show Window users.
> If you want to try it the URL is www.sun.com/staroffice
> The Linux download is 93MB and you need to run the installation program as
> user not as root.
>
> Charles :-)
> I don't agree Charles. What's wrong with rpm? Easy to install
>and uninstall. If all the various software vendors and developers
>began devising their own 'automatic' installs, I suspect utter
>chaos, and a lot of broken distros would shortly be the result.>
>
>--
>~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I totally agree with Tom.
Even Microsoft agrees, as the new Windows installer features .msi files that
behaves in a *simpler* way as rpm does. Of course it opens it dialogs and
all
but I think that should be left to the first time you run the program.
Unified installation keeps track of system wide program dependency.
My .002 cents.
-f.
