[Techtalk] Re: Uninstalling SOT office, etc. & SuSE 8.0/KDE 3

[Jacqueline McNally]

At 07:00 AM 05/02/2002, Marian Routh wrote:

>Yes, I'm sorry to say it, but apparently Windows programmers don't have
>a monopoly on what I consider rude software behavior - putting their
>programs in start-up (in the Windows world), associating themselves
>unasked, dumping files all over the hdd and in a non-standard manner,
>and then being difficult to remove.  I must say, though, that this bad
>behavior seems to be the exception rather than the rule in Linux.

It has been reported that SOT is a forked development of openoffice 641C, 
with SOT added look and feel, and finnish lang support. Pierre and Malcolm 
provided the keys to removing SOT Office in previous messages.

I must admit, before I knew about the /net switch, my first OpenOffice.org 
install was frustrating. I have recently signed up on a Debian 
OpenOffice.org list, and it appears that there will be a .deb for 
OpenOffice.org 1.0 I am still not across what is free and non-free and all 
the other naming attributes and things that go into developing a .deb, but 
I wonder whether there is there any reason why the .deb package may contain 
different things to the tar ball ? This may not be the case, but it's just 
what I feel from reading the thread.

Way back when, when the first release of FrameMaker became available (only 
on UNIX), I was handed a cartridge tape, with, "here is your desktop 
publishing software, the documentation is on the tape". There was a piece 
of paper with the license key, and the gem that I needed, the name of the 
file on the tape was foo.tar. I still have the notebook from looking up how 
to extract and install my software, and print my doco.ps.

Since 8pm (Perth, Western Australia time), I have been participating in the 
launch of OpenOffice.org 1.0 which is simply amazing. Apart from getting 
the message out there, I have received numerous requests for information, 
mirrors, and CDs. What is really great, is the sense of community and 
encouragement from other OpenOffice.org contributors.

One of the places the press release that I and others sent out is here:
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/05/01/1654236
(Thanks to Tina for prompting me about the HTML formatting)

All the best
Jacqueline
http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/users/zenryaku/

Community Contact, Australia/New Zealand
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project
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