[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Download
On 1/4/2016 6:11 AM, Shakir, Salman (External) wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I want to ask about the downloading procedure. Is it necessary to download it with Torrent because in some countries use of Torrent is not allowed. So kindly help me in this regard. Best Regards Salman Shakir you can download directly from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Download
Hi :) This mailing list usually recommends the "Still" branch rather than the "Fresh" branch. The "Still" branch has usually had enough "Service Packs" to fix almost any problems that people may have had with the "Fresh" branch. The "Fresh" branch is the default download offered on the official website. It helps the least geeky people and complete noobs to get the version with the newest features and the most problems. The "Still" branch has all the features almost anyone is ever likely to need, it is extremely robust and reliable - so we give people the other version because it's more interesting and flashy. However the "Fresh" branch has just had it's 4th "Service Pack" and so it's about due to be named the new "Still" branch. It's about the time that many of us on this mailing list move our clients and "mission critical" machines onto this branch and start getting excited about the prospect of having an entirely new branch to try out. Good luck and regards from Tom :) On 4 January 2016 at 12:53, william drescher wrote: > On 1/4/2016 6:11 AM, Shakir, Salman (External) wrote: >> >> Dear Sir/Madam, >> >> I want to ask about the downloading procedure. Is it necessary to download >> it with Torrent because in some countries use of Torrent is not allowed. So >> kindly help me in this regard. >> >> Best Regards >> Salman Shakir >> > > you can download directly from > http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Download
For what it's worth, I had downloaded the "fresh" branch a few weeks ago. I think it was version 5.0.3 (or 4). I experienced daily crashes with it. I got so frustrated that I completely uninstalled it and went back to the trusty "still" version. My current plan is to not go near version 5 until I find that version 4 fails to complete my work. I would recommend that the download cite default to the "still" branch. If I had been a complete noob and had this experience with the default "fresh" branch, I'd be looking for a different solution altogether. Virgil On 01/04/2016 02:17 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) This mailing list usually recommends the "Still" branch rather than the "Fresh" branch. The "Still" branch has usually had enough "Service Packs" to fix almost any problems that people may have had with the "Fresh" branch. The "Fresh" branch is the default download offered on the official website. It helps the least geeky people and complete noobs to get the version with the newest features and the most problems. The "Still" branch has all the features almost anyone is ever likely to need, it is extremely robust and reliable - so we give people the other version because it's more interesting and flashy. However the "Fresh" branch has just had it's 4th "Service Pack" and so it's about due to be named the new "Still" branch. It's about the time that many of us on this mailing list move our clients and "mission critical" machines onto this branch and start getting excited about the prospect of having an entirely new branch to try out. Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Download
Virgil; What system are you using that gives you the daily crashes? I agree with Tom that soon the current 5.0.x line will be turned into the "still" version line. I am running both 4.x.x and 5.0.x between my different dual booting Win10 partitions and my Ubuntu 14.xx/15.xx partitions and single OS systems. I have not experienced any crashing, except for some very large and complex files. Maybe I do not use my LO version[s] as much as you do, but I am not getting your type of crashing. So it could be something in your system that may not like LO, or it may just be that there is a corruption in the config files. If I remember correctly, 4.x and 5.x use different config file folders. Yes, I still recommend 4.x to people, but since that like is coming to its end, I will have to decide if 5.0.x is ready "enough" for me to point clients and family to it. Tim L. On 01/04/2016 03:39 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: For what it's worth, I had downloaded the "fresh" branch a few weeks ago. I think it was version 5.0.3 (or 4). I experienced daily crashes with it. I got so frustrated that I completely uninstalled it and went back to the trusty "still" version. My current plan is to not go near version 5 until I find that version 4 fails to complete my work. I would recommend that the download cite default to the "still" branch. If I had been a complete noob and had this experience with the default "fresh" branch, I'd be looking for a different solution altogether. Virgil On 01/04/2016 02:17 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) This mailing list usually recommends the "Still" branch rather than the "Fresh" branch. The "Still" branch has usually had enough "Service Packs" to fix almost any problems that people may have had with the "Fresh" branch. The "Fresh" branch is the default download offered on the official website. It helps the least geeky people and complete noobs to get the version with the newest features and the most problems. The "Still" branch has all the features almost anyone is ever likely to need, it is extremely robust and reliable - so we give people the other version because it's more interesting and flashy. However the "Fresh" branch has just had it's 4th "Service Pack" and so it's about due to be named the new "Still" branch. It's about the time that many of us on this mailing list move our clients and "mission critical" machines onto this branch and start getting excited about the prospect of having an entirely new branch to try out. Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Download
Virgil; What system are you using that gives you the daily crashes? I agree with Tom that soon the current 5.0.x line will be turned into the "still" version line. I am running both 4.x.x and 5.0.x between my different dual booting Win10 partitions and my Ubuntu 14.xx/15.xx partitions and single OS systems. I have not experienced any crashing, except for some very large and complex files. Maybe I do not use my LO version[s] as much as you do, but I am not getting your type of crashing. So it could be something in your system that may not like LO, or it may just be that there is a corruption in the config files. If I remember correctly, 4.x and 5.x use different config file folders. Yes, I still recommend 4.x to people, but since that like is coming to its end, I will have to decide if 5.0.x is ready "enough" for me to point clients and family to it. Tim L. On 01/04/2016 03:39 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: For what it's worth, I had downloaded the "fresh" branch a few weeks ago. I think it was version 5.0.3 (or 4). I experienced daily crashes with it. I got so frustrated that I completely uninstalled it and went back to the trusty "still" version. My current plan is to not go near version 5 until I find that version 4 fails to complete my work. I would recommend that the download cite default to the "still" branch. If I had been a complete noob and had this experience with the default "fresh" branch, I'd be looking for a different solution altogether. Virgil On 01/04/2016 02:17 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) This mailing list usually recommends the "Still" branch rather than the "Fresh" branch. The "Still" branch has usually had enough "Service Packs" to fix almost any problems that people may have had with the "Fresh" branch. The "Fresh" branch is the default download offered on the official website. It helps the least geeky people and complete noobs to get the version with the newest features and the most problems. The "Still" branch has all the features almost anyone is ever likely to need, it is extremely robust and reliable - so we give people the other version because it's more interesting and flashy. However the "Fresh" branch has just had it's 4th "Service Pack" and so it's about due to be named the new "Still" branch. It's about the time that many of us on this mailing list move our clients and "mission critical" machines onto this branch and start getting excited about the prospect of having an entirely new branch to try out. Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Download
Tim, I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with the Unity DE. I honestly don't recall the actual things I was doing when it crashed, other than I was using Writer (which I use 95% of the time). If I recall, it happened a lot when I had multiple files open, and it nearly always happened when I tried to open an ".odt" file directly from "Files," the Ubuntu file manager, rather than going through the LO "Open File" dialogs. Before uninstalling, I did some online searching and found many others who were experiencing frequent crashing with 5.0.x. I just figured it wasn't yet ready for prime time. As for config files, when I installed 5.0.x, it recognized my custom settings and templates from 4.4.x, so it must have imported at least some of them. At any rate, I'm generally happy with 4.4.7.2. Virgil On 01/04/2016 07:19 PM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Virgil; What system are you using that gives you the daily crashes? I agree with Tom that soon the current 5.0.x line will be turned into the "still" version line. I am running both 4.x.x and 5.0.x between my different dual booting Win10 partitions and my Ubuntu 14.xx/15.xx partitions and single OS systems. I have not experienced any crashing, except for some very large and complex files. Maybe I do not use my LO version[s] as much as you do, but I am not getting your type of crashing. So it could be something in your system that may not like LO, or it may just be that there is a corruption in the config files. If I remember correctly, 4.x and 5.x use different config file folders. Yes, I still recommend 4.x to people, but since that like is coming to its end, I will have to decide if 5.0.x is ready "enough" for me to point clients and family to it. Tim L. On 01/04/2016 03:39 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: For what it's worth, I had downloaded the "fresh" branch a few weeks ago. I think it was version 5.0.3 (or 4). I experienced daily crashes with it. I got so frustrated that I completely uninstalled it and went back to the trusty "still" version. My current plan is to not go near version 5 until I find that version 4 fails to complete my work. I would recommend that the download cite default to the "still" branch. If I had been a complete noob and had this experience with the default "fresh" branch, I'd be looking for a different solution altogether. Virgil On 01/04/2016 02:17 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) This mailing list usually recommends the "Still" branch rather than the "Fresh" branch. The "Still" branch has usually had enough "Service Packs" to fix almost any problems that people may have had with the "Fresh" branch. The "Fresh" branch is the default download offered on the official website. It helps the least geeky people and complete noobs to get the version with the newest features and the most problems. The "Still" branch has all the features almost anyone is ever likely to need, it is extremely robust and reliable - so we give people the other version because it's more interesting and flashy. However the "Fresh" branch has just had it's 4th "Service Pack" and so it's about due to be named the new "Still" branch. It's about the time that many of us on this mailing list move our clients and "mission critical" machines onto this branch and start getting excited about the prospect of having an entirely new branch to try out. Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
