Comments on: It’s Not The Hokey Cokey; OpenOffice BACK In Ubuntu Netbook Edition After User Outcry

By: Best Registry Cleaner

Best Registry Cleaner — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 07:06:00 +0000

The beauty of Ubuntu is that it’s so amazingly easy to get great software as you need it.

By: bigbrovar

bigbrovar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:23:00 +0000

The ubuntu-desktop is a metapackage. By its self its contains nothing. But installing it would pull other packages which are needed for setting up the Ubuntu setup. Openoffice happens to be about the packages that gets pulled by the Ubuntu-desktop meta-package. So If I installed a command-line only version of ubuntu and I decided to install the Ubuntu GUI desktop. all I would do is installed the ubuntu-desktop metapackage. and it would pull openoffice, evolution and every other packages and application which make up the Ubuntu default install. Removing the meta-package would not harm your computer.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:08:00 +0000

Actually, when apt-get removing OOo it tries to remove ubuntu-desktop completely, but when doing apt-get install OOo it just installs and does nothing else. Whats the easy way? xD

By: andybleaden

andybleaden — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:20:00 +0000

must admit it was a little disappointing not to have Open office there but sorted it myself after a few clicks.guess it reduced the load size and for most people I guess abiword was good enough…even for me if I am honest but I have always liked Open Office

AndyBleaden

By: Kim 'The_Pirate'

Kim 'The_Pirate' — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:44:00 +0000

Great!

Now, if sanity is sporadically breaking out at Canonical – how about dumping Mono for good, and getting The GIMP back into the main distro?

Or is this just a wet dream….?

By: Masticina Akicta

Masticina Akicta — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:34:00 +0000

I would almost say DUH

Sure to be fair it is rather big and rather memory heavy but it is the office suite for Linux that everyone can use. And it is nice pre microsof office 2007 in build up so it works like expected.

By: Daniel Hedblom

Daniel Hedblom — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:57:00 +0000

Well done, now if canonical would just listen to the outcry about mono and toss it out with the patents and problems surrounding it and it would be a nice distribution again. The only beneficiary of Mono in Ubuntu are Microsoft. I have yet to see a good application written in .net.

By: celem

celem — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:53:00 +0000

When my Dell 910 (2GB Flash drive) self destructed during an update due to insufficient disk space, I replaced it with Xubuntu Abiword and Gnumeric. This left my flash drive half empty. For a “true” netbook, which my machine is, Abiword and Gnumeric are fine, after all, a netbook is supposed to be mostly on the net – hence the name. Of course my desktop has OO. I find Abiword and Gnumeric to be adequate for my “real” netbook.

By: Tomasz Slominski

Tomasz Slominski — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:06:00 +0000

GNUMeric crashes my entire network xd

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:56:00 +0000

While there at it free up some more room by dumping all of the mono-based stuff out of the default install and leave it in the repositories, that stuff is slow and bloated and this would free up a lot of space

By: Micah

Micah — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:52:00 +0000

Yay. OOo is a great tool. It allows all kinds of compatibility that, although less than perfect, would still certainly be wayyy better than abiword. Don’t get me wrong – I love Abiword, and used it solely for a long time – but their compatibility (EVEN WITH ODT!!) is way lacking. If Abiword would make odt the default and support it fully then I’d probably use it instead (Office 2007 can open/edit .odt files with sp2! Awesome!) because OOo does tend to hog resources, and that’s a drain on my battery. But I think Google Docs is still too young, and underdeveloped, to be sustainable. At the VERY least until Gears is able to make new documents instead of JUST updating already-downloaded ones.

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:48:00 +0000

I have to say I find this to be pretty disappointing. The first thing I have to do when I do an ubuntu install on my netbook is get rid of open office. I have a netbook with a 4 gig flash drive, and quite honestly I don’t need anything else. OpenOffice is overkill in the extreme for the netbook purpose and build. Oh well, there’s always Xubuntu, which is better for netbooks anyway. For all those brilliant individuals out there who want a full office suite and all of Gnome installed on their mini low powered computers, you’re welcome to your bloat. Enjoy it.

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:48:00 +0000

By: bigbrovar

bigbrovar — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:36:00 +0000

Thanks God Sanity prevailed. Any one who doesn’t like OO.o should remove it. Its much more easier for users to opt out then opt in

By: bigbrovar

bigbrovar — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:36:00 +0000

Thanks God Sanity prevailed. Any one who doesn’t like OO.o should remove it. Its much more easier for users to opt out then opt in

By: John

John — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0000

That’s great!
I was about to switch to another distribution just because they dropped OpenOffice…

By: John

John — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:00:00 +0000

That’s great!
I was about to switch to another distribution just because they dropped OpenOffice…

By: wakingrufus

wakingrufus — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:32:00 +0000

I was a fan of the abiword/gnumeric idea. they are much more lightweight. and gnumeric is better than calc in a number of ways (and yes worse in some others).

By: wakingrufus

wakingrufus — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:32:00 +0000

I was a fan of the abiword/gnumeric idea. they are much more lightweight. and gnumeric is better than calc in a number of ways (and yes worse in some others).

By: Bilal Akhtar

Bilal Akhtar — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:25:00 +0000

This decision is helpful for those having netbooks and slow internet connections. OOo would take a LONG time to download on connections below the speed of 256KBPS . Well, Its good that the developers have made some sense and included OOo!