On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 20:21 +0100, jdd wrote: > Aniruddha wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:01 -0500, Bryen wrote: > > >> OpenSuse has alot of packages right out of the box. But, SLED is > >> stripped down to only support the needs of a typical corporate > >> environment. > > and, may be the most important, the support of Novell is for all the > included packages, not only the kernel :-). Of course, Novell can't > support the many packages openSUSE hold. > > >> serious compatibility issues with MS documents. Novell has tweaked > >> their own version of oOo to be better compatible with MS document > >> formats, and thus less complaints from users when they can't read/break > >> an MS document emailed to them. > > is that true? I wonder why, in this case, the enhancement are not > ported upward to ooo? > My understanding, the last time I read about this (maybe a year ago), OpenOffice ships with macros disabled, whereas Novell ships with macros enabled. That's more of a philosophical difference than a technical difference. In which case, philosophies aren't upstreamed to the main project. It is more like a fork, although I wouldn't exactly call Novell's OpenOffice a fork like other OpenOffice products that are out there. -- ---Bryen---
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
