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. > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
