Hi, let me give my two cents:
I believe the confusion comes from the fact that the PortableApps folks
put in their description of the LibreOffice Portable product that it
runs from a "cloud drive" which basically just means that it can run
from a network share. This does indeed work (and fairly well if your
network isn't too congested) but, as others have said, this does not
make LibreOffice Portable a "cloud" application.
Cheers,
Chris Carpenter
P.S. I put cloud in quotes because the term is being used for basically
anything on the network anymore... I suppose my definition would be a
massively multi-user product optimized for being deployed over the
internet or a large network? Meh, I don't even know.
P.P.S. Also, there IS something similar for Linux, though I haven't
tried it as all my linux machines have it installed locally. You can
find it here: http://portablelinuxapps.org/. Web site is rather
terrible, but it supposably works well.
On 02/03/2011 08:26 PM, Michel Gagnon wrote:
Le 2011-02-03 17:31, Tom Davies a écrit :
Hi :)
I thought this
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable
worked on the Cloud?
Regards from
Tom :)
Does it work on the cloud? If you talk about the weather, yes.
Seriously, the PortableApps application, including LibreOffice Portable
work without formal installation. These programs also usually don't
create any registry entries. It allows one to run programs like
LibreOffice, Firefox or Thunderbird from a USB key. Useful, for example
if you want to use a program on a borrowed computer. I have read a few
times that LibreOffice Portable is very slowon a typical USB key, slower
than the previous version of OpenOffice. It works fine from a small
thumb drive and it's great if you use it from a customer's computer.
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