2010/3/6 Ivan Stout <aibanham...@gmail.com>: > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Johnny Rosenberg > <gurus.knu...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Ehr… it has OpenOffice.org 2.4…? THAT is REALLY old… >> > > Well, I would call that a strength of FOSS . . . Maybe that is all they > needed and there was no vendor to force them to use higher hardware specs > just to support the latest version. The niche markets this is for probably > has access to no office suite, so OOo 2.4 would be a major benefit. I like > the thought that the first office suite a group of people will use will be > OOo. Maybe OOo on ARM will be a great turning point for office suite file > formats.
Well, what can I say? You are right of course, but still, does anyone really want to use OpenOffice.org 2.4 these days? Well, of course, if you don't like it, you could always install the newest version so it's not a big deal. Personally I couldn't use 2.4 for very long since one of my most important (well, important for me anyway) spreadsheets makes use of one of the two new Calc functions UNICODE() and (UNICHAR), so that spreadsheet wouldn't work at all with OpenOffice.org 2.4. But of course I realize that we who really need those functions are very few… Regards Johnny Rosenberg > > That said, depending on the price, I would definitely want at least one as a > TV media station. I have been waiting too long for the low power Linux ARM > devices to start pouring in. With ssh forwarding and sshfs, it really does > not matter what software the device comes with. You can use it as a proxy to > run any software you want (e.g. latest OO.org) and access any files you > have. > > Anyway, I find this to be very exciting and am glad it was posted here > (since all my usual sources of this type of information appear to not have > caught on yet). Thanks! > > Cheers, > Ivan > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
