Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 13:11:01 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Leonardo Arena <rnalrd@gmail.com>
Cc: Roelof Wobben <r.wobben@home.nl>, alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] open office
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On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:06:11 +0100
Leonardo Arena <rnalrd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On mar, 2014-01-07 at 09:03 +0100, Roelof Wobben wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have doubts about changing to alpine for my desktop.
> 
> 
> I usually consider crazy those doing that, and myself is one of
> those. :)
> However Alpine is not my only desktop. You won't have a fully-functional
> (and bloated) desktop: flash plugin, 3D graphics support, plug&play,
> etc.

3d graphics actually works, as long as you have open source drivers.
Adobe flash won't work, yes.

Localization is also a weak spot.
 
> > What I miss the most is a office suite like open office.
> > I could make a apk build for myself but I have a very slow machine.
> > Compilimg whole Gnome costs me around 10 - 12 hours.
> > 
> > Is someone willing to make open office avaible ?
> 
> Iirc someone tried that or checked what was needed: some features
> missing in uclibc.

I don't think its worth spending time on making it work on uclibc. It
might be worth the effort for musl though.

-nc


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