I maintain OOo for Ubuntu.
The OpenOffice.org in Ubuntu is the go-oo.org version.
go-oo takes the original sun tarballs then patches it heavily with
somewhere around 500 patches. Pretty much all Linux distributions use
the go-oo.org build system and patches, except for Fedora, which just
takes a few of the patches and does the build differently. Of course we
have a few Ubuntu specific patches as well which are actually located in
the go-oo (ooo-build) repository at svn.gnome.org. We add things like
the Human icon theme and launchpad integration. And we also use a
different splash screen for the Ubuntu version which has the Sun logo on
it by Sun's request.
Chris
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 16:48 -0500, John Moser wrote:
I was considering filing a bug for package request or creating a spec
for Go-Ooo.org for inclusion in Ubuntu, or possibly as a replacement
for OpenOffice.org vanilla. Start-up time is faster and feature set
is expanded.
There seems to be some contention between the world in general and Sun
over OOo; people have forked or threatened to fork the project several
times, and Go-OOo seems to be the most active as far as I can tell.
I'm not sure where this will lead in the future-- possibly to a
stagnating OOo from Sun and then to a completely different office
suite, or possibly to a new fork, or possibly to Go-OOo, or possibly
to some improvement in community view and/or management of Sun's OOo--
but I think the current political atmosphere and the availability of a
more featureful fork warrants some investigation.
Has anyone else tried this thing? I'm curious to know any opinions
(political and technical, but please if you must pick one than go more
technical than political) on the software, as well as any better or
more active forks out there, or other viable alternatives entirely.
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