SOT Office 2002 ?

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Collins wrote:

> On Mon, 06 May 2002 16:21:59 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb"
> <bholcomb at R777cableone.net> wrote:
>> Well for one thing with OOoyou need a Green Hornet secret decoder
>> ring to figure out how to install it.  You have to use a /net and

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>> > What's so crappy about the SO/OO install process? I did quite a
>> > lot of installs on win resp. linux systems, and I wished all my
>> > installation adventures had been that harmless.
> 
> Ditto.  Plus it's a gui install - no possibility to configure using
> standard parameter settings (anyone ever heard of --prefix, for
> example).  Since it's gui, you have to use xhost localhost if you want
> the secret decoder ring stuff.
> 
> In short, it looks like your average Windoze install.
> 
> Obviously, YMMV and MBIS (my bias is showing).

I guess mine is too <G>.  That's what's so frustrating about the OpenSource 
stuff - it wants to play with the big boys but when you ask about things 
like install instructions you get flamed!  Whether we like it or not we 
aren't going to win sysadmins over when they suddenly have to spend hours 
on mailing lists and searching websites for something that should be 
included in the package - like a readme!

 

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