Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ?
On 10/03/2013 12:14 PM, M Henri Day wrote: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has published an interesting article, *French police move from Windows to Ubuntu Linux* ( http://www.zdnet.com/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux-721479/) , over at ZDNet. It deals explicitly with a migration from Windows XP to a «customized version of Ubuntu Linux», but if, as I presume, LO is included as the standard office suite, it is significant for us as well. Anyone familiar with the details ?... Henri I do not remember what the current LO version is in the Ubuntu repositories, but I use 12.04LTS instead of 13.04 and 13.10 comes out this month as well. Still there was an earlier message that their President or Prime Minister stated that the French government supports LO and wants to drop MSO in favor of LO. That was sometime this past spring. So, if that is the case, then the combination of the two statements implies that they will be using LO. -- 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] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ?
At 18:14 03/10/2013 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has published an interesting article, *French police move from Windows to Ubuntu Linux* ( http://www.zdnet.com/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux-721479/ ), over at ZDNet. It deals explicitly with a migration from Windows XP to a «customized version of Ubuntu Linux», but if, as I presume, LO is included as the standard office suite, ... Perhaps not. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu/ (from 2009) says The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the entire organization. It gradually adopted other open source software applications, including Firefox and Thunderbird. After the launch of Windows Vista in 2006, it decided to phase out Windows and incrementally migrate to Ubuntu. Brian Barker -- 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] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ?
-Original Message- From: M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com To: LibreOffice, users users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ? Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 18:14:26 +0200 Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has published an interesting article, *French police move from Windows to Ubuntu Linux* ( http://www.zdnet.com/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux-721479/) , over at ZDNet. It deals explicitly with a migration from Windows XP to a «customized version of Ubuntu Linux», but if, as I presume, LO is included as the standard office suite, it is significant for us as well. Anyone familiar with the details ?... Henri Henri The only standard office suites on Linux with good MSO file compatibility are LO and AOO. If they are using Ubuntu as the base I would expect them to use LO. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- 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] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ?
Brian Barker wrote: At 18:14 03/10/2013 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has published an interesting article, *French police move from Windows to Ubuntu Linux* ( http://www.zdnet.com/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux-721479/ ), over at ZDNet. It deals explicitly with a migration from Windows XP to a «customized version of Ubuntu Linux», but if, as I presume, LO is included as the standard office suite, ... Perhaps not. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu/ (from 2009) says The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the entire organization. It gradually adopted other open source software applications, including Firefox and Thunderbird. After the launch of Windows Vista in 2006, it decided to phase out Windows and incrementally migrate to Ubuntu. Either way, they're not using Microsoft Office. They're using open source software that's supported on multiple platforms and share common standardized file formats. This ends the MS lock in for them. -- 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] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ?
2013/10/3 Sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com Hi, Le 03/10/2013 18:14, M Henri Day a écrit : Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has published an interesting article, *French police move from Windows to Ubuntu Linux* ( http://www.zdnet.com/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux-721479/ ) , over at ZDNet. It deals explicitly with a migration from Windows XP to a «customized version of Ubuntu Linux», but if, as I presume, LO is included as the standard office suite, it is significant for us as well. Anyone familiar with the details ?... They use LibreOffice since some times now. You may have also seen that MIMO is part of our Advisory Board, it represents several ministries in France which are using LibreOffice. See this announcement: http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2013/06/17/the-document-foundation-welcomes-frances-mimo-in-the-advisory-board/ Ministry of Defense is participating here. Kind regards Sophie Thanks, Sophie - that is, indeed, what I surmised, but it could have been otherwise, as Brian's message above, which shows that MSO was replaced by OOO before the move to a new operating system took place, indicates. Still, it seems reasonable that if a version of Ubuntu were to be installed, the default office suite found there would be used, rather than being replaced by AOO, which simply would introduce a complication without any corresponding benefits. Good, at any rate, to be able to replace speculation with knowledge Henri -- 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] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ?
-Original Message- From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Reply-to: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk To: jsloz...@gmail.com jsloz...@gmail.com, users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ? Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:36:28 +0100 (BST) Hi :) It's not the only. There are choices. It's not hugely tough to uninstall LibreOffice and install Gnome Office, AOO, KOffice, Calligra, Google-docs or even Kingsoft or the weird one that comes with Macs. I'm sure fanboys/girls of each could successfully argue why 'theirs' is the best. Whichever you prefer it's good to know it co-operates with all the others. It's only Microsquish that tends to restrict the types of formats you can use and the interoperability with other products. The only real question for me is can i carry on using what i prefer using and still communicate with them (whoever they are). When they are using MS the answer is a bit chancy but if they use anything else the answer tends to be yes. It's just the icing on the cake if they do choose to use the best (by which i mean LibreOffice) Regards from Tom :) I have installed on openSUSE 12.3: Gnome Office Calligra Office EuroOffice 2012 (AOO and LO fork/derivative) Free Office (covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - stripped down version of SoftMaker Office (proprietary) Kingsoft Office (covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint) (proprietary) Apache OpenOffice 4.0 LibreOffice both 4.0.4 and 4.1.1 (first from repositories and second from LO site) LO 4.1.1 is my primary suite I installed most for testing/curiosity/backup and for reading/editing MSO files when LO has problems. I have not had any problems with clashes or other problems between the suites snip /snip -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- 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] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ?
I've just received a batch of resent messages, such as the one below, from some idiot joto2...@verizon.net, who thinks it's fun to resend messages without adding any content. joto2036 wrote: - Original Message - From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ? Brian Barker wrote: At 18:14 03/10/2013 +0200, M Henri Day wrote: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has published an interesting article, *French police move from Windows to Ubuntu Linux* ( http://www.zdnet.com/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux-721479/ ), over at ZDNet. It deals explicitly with a migration from Windows XP to a «customized version of Ubuntu Linux», but if, as I presume, LO is included as the standard office suite, ... Perhaps not. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu/ (from 2009) says The Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when it replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the entire organization. It gradually adopted other open source software applications, including Firefox and Thunderbird. After the launch of Windows Vista in 2006, it decided to phase out Windows and incrementally migrate to Ubuntu. Either way, they're not using Microsoft Office. They're using open source software that's supported on multiple platforms and share common standardized file formats. This ends the MS lock in for them. -- 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] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ?
Hi :) It's not the only. There are choices. It's not hugely tough to uninstall LibreOffice and install Gnome Office, AOO, KOffice, Calligra, Google-docs or even Kingsoft or the weird one that comes with Macs. I'm sure fanboys/girls of each could successfully argue why 'theirs' is the best. Whichever you prefer it's good to know it co-operates with all the others. It's only Microsquish that tends to restrict the types of formats you can use and the interoperability with other products. The only real question for me is can i carry on using what i prefer using and still communicate with them (whoever they are). When they are using MS the answer is a bit chancy but if they use anything else the answer tends to be yes. It's just the icing on the cake if they do choose to use the best (by which i mean LibreOffice) Regards from Tom :) From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2013, 18:30 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ? -Original Message- From: M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com To: LibreOffice, users users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO on La Gendarmerie Nationale computers ? Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 18:14:26 +0200 Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has published an interesting article, *French police move from Windows to Ubuntu Linux* ( http://www.zdnet.com/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux-721479/) , over at ZDNet. It deals explicitly with a migration from Windows XP to a «customized version of Ubuntu Linux», but if, as I presume, LO is included as the standard office suite, it is significant for us as well. Anyone familiar with the details ?... Henri Henri The only standard office suites on Linux with good MSO file compatibility are LO and AOO. If they are using Ubuntu as the base I would expect them to use LO. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- 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
