M Henri Day wrote:
2009/8/7 Harold Fuchs <hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com>
On 07/08/09 17:41, Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 07/08/09 17:29, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:35:10 +0100
"Gordon" <gbpli...@gmail.com> dijo:
"Web Kracked" <webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote in message
news:4a7c3154.50...@krackedpress.com...
I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 on one of my machines.
Is there any thing I should know about dealing with
the Ubuntu version of OOo?
I want to start setting it up with all the extensions
I have on my Vista laptop, and such.
This is my first step to converting all but one machine to Linux.
Next will be an HP Athlon64 laptop that is running 32-bit XP/pro
that will be given a 64-bit OS so I can number crunch BOINC
projects faster. Also that will be my default Linux machine.
This Vista one will go to Win7 when it comes out, and working properly.
But now I need all the help with Ubuntu 9 and OOo on Linux as I can
get.
As far as I'm aware, the only major difference between OO on Windows and
OO in Ubuntu is that the Ubuntu version won't access Email client address
books to use for mail merge, labels etc. If you don't use this function,
then there's no real differences AFAIK...
There is one other difference. In the version from OOo the File > Save
option is grayed out when the file has not been altered. If you type so
much as a space it then becomes available. Ditto for Ctrl-s - if you
hit Ctrl-s and the document has not been changed it does not resave the
document, saving time and disk use.
In the Ubuntu version it is always available, so you can't tell if you
need to save the document or not. It's not a show-stopper, but I liked
the fact that I didn't have to continually save the document when I had
made no changes.
Hmm. Not true in my OOo 3.1 on Ubuntu 9.04. The Save option greys out
after a save and only reappears after a change.
Whoops. Sorry. Forgot I'd installed the non-Ubuntu version.
I rected to that as well, Howard, but fortunately I listed to the voice that
said «think before writing» and recalled that I had installed (several)
versions direct from OOo and that it was their behaviour I remembered, thus
saving myself from yet another public solecism....
Henri
Well now;
It looks like there is not much difference.
I will not be needing email on the Ubuntu server
since it mostly is a file server, but also; a DVD Authoring
machine, BOINC volunteer computing machine
(see www.lungstrom.com for details or just Google),
plus some odds and end stuff. I did need OOo on it
sometimes when it was a Win2000 file server.
I still need some help learning Ubuntu and finding the
best applications for me to try, before I start converting
my other machines (except one) to Ubuntu-Linux. I keep
forgetting about needing to "re-mount" the two SCSI drives
that were E: and F: and was not converted to a Linux formated
drive. Those two drives are where my files are kept when
there is no room on my laptops. Like over 100,000 font file
including a full set of Adobe fonts from 2-3 years ago.
What was meant by "Whoops. Sorry. Forgot I'd installed the non-Ubuntu
version." Was there some other version that could be installed
on Ubuntu?
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Tim L.
retired and tired of MS's OSs and programs,
so now I have starting to get rid of them, finally.
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