Hi,
> So is Vista supported? It certainly isn't deprecated. But neither
> is it getting the full QA treatment. Similar questions for Linux
> releases. We don't test every release of every distro. We pick the
> major ones, such as the Ubuntu LTS releases.
>
on Vista I would be surprised if AOO won't run on it.
On Linux if AOO picks a defined version of a Linux distro as a
'supported' one then this would be the wrong decision. 'Supporting' has
to be seen in a more technical manner not from the 'commercial support'
POV. In the past OOo was built by using a build infrastructure that
allowed OOo to run the binary on most of the Linux distributions. There
were just a few distros that failed because they were incompatible to
everything else.
Platform compatibility depends on some prerequisites (just some examples):
glibc versions supported
system dependent system integration (eg. on KDE, Gnome, etc.)
drag&drop support
clipboard support
sane support on that platform
java dependencies on that platform (eg. Sun Java version, OpenSource
derivates)
The more important question is: Is AOO a LSB compatible application ?
Kind regards, Joost
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