{"id":25,"date":"2009-02-05T07:03:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T11:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2020-04-27T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:03:58","slug":"hmmm-ooo-differences-fedora-and-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/05\/hmmm-ooo-differences-fedora-and-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmmm &#8230; OO.o differences, Fedora, and Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/?p=13\">I may just have that reason to get rid of Ubuntu<\/a> I whined about minor differences between &#8220;stock&#8221; OpenOffice.org appearances and functions and those I used straight off the OO.o website as well as what ships with Fedora.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/katana.oooninja.com\/w\/editions_of_openoffice.org\">This blog<\/a> (<a title=\"openoffice.org ninja blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/openofficedifferences.pdf\">here&#8217;s my archive<\/a>) explains a bit why: It says &#8220;Many Linux distributions ship ooo-build. &#8230; Fedora ships a modified OpenOffice.org, but Fedora does not use ooo-build.&#8221; Which means that in keeping with Fedora&#8217;s usual policy, it ships upstream versions of software with only reasonably required modifications to make it work under Fedora. When I was using CentOS, I was using the vanilla version directly from OO.o.<\/p>\n<p>That explains a few things. It doesn&#8217;t necessarily justify my whining &#8212; nor <em>all<\/em> the changes Ubuntu or other distros (or even Fedora) make, but &#8230; Why mess with a good thing? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my post I may just have that reason to get rid of Ubuntu I whined about minor differences between &#8220;stock&#8221; OpenOffice.org appearances and functions and those I used straight off the OO.o website as well as what ships with Fedora. This blog (here&#8217;s my archive) explains a bit why: It says &#8220;Many Linux distributions &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/05\/hmmm-ooo-differences-fedora-and-ubuntu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hmmm &#8230; OO.o differences, Fedora, and Ubuntu&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,34,63,132,33,129],"tags":[75,26,62,73,72,74],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centos","category-computers","category-fedora-linux","category-libreoffice","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-centos","tag-computers","tag-fedora","tag-libreoffice","tag-openoffice-org","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}