Subj : Re: Linux Office Suite
To   : apam
From : acn
Date : Tue Jun 28 2022 16:54:00

Am 26.06.22 schrieb apam@21:1/101 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo apam,

de>> OpenOffice is what LibreOffice forked from (IIRC). I did many a

a> Yep that's right, before open office it was called star office and was open
a> sourced by Sun, I forget who they bought it off. It's come a long way since
a> then. I remember how it was all sort of contained in one program, rather
a> than split off into several programs like writer spreadsheets etc, really
a> didn't like that much.

The storyline goes this way:

Company "StarDivision" (Germany):
- StarWriter (CP/M, DOS, Win16, Atari ST)
- StarOffice (Win16, Win32, OS/2, Linux, Solaris)
  up to version 5.1a (Win32, OS/2, Linux, Solaris)

Sun Microsystems:
- StarOffice 5.2 (Win32, Linux, Solaris)
  up to version 9

When Sun bought StarDivision, they open-sourced StarOffice, which  
became OpenOffice.
After Oracle bought Sun, many developers left OpenOffice.org and  
started LibreOffice as a fork.

Regarding the "all in one"-program:
Yes, from version 4 till version 5.2, StarOffice was a 'all in one'  
program, containing everything and a kitchen sink :)
It even contained a web browser, mail client, news reader and HTML  
editor.
And yes, that really slowed down the startup of StarOffice, but once  
it was started, it was quite quick, AFAIR.
I even liked the concept and also used the mail client back in the  
day.

I've used StarOffice since version 4 on OS/2 and later on Linux (and  
on Windows, when I had to use it).

So, I'm used to the way it worked and sometimes with newer versions of  
LibreOffice, I have some problems finding stuff, as I only use it from  
time to time (I have less and less documents to create...), as some  
things keep on changing and the icons are getting uglier and harder to  
identify every year.

But there is one thing that I would like to state:
Even today, as LibreOffice seems to be divived into several  
applications, it still is run from the binary "soffice.bin".
There is just no desktop around anymore :)

Regards,
Anna

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