Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache Open Office Team Date: 20 Aug 2015 05:28:23 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: randy@therandymon.com X-Trace: individual.net Vq5VlGHuWTfH1iEetUELbAxWGaoLAzVFll5rhZ/8Ltg3RxUo4K Cancel-Lock: sha1:AeIgwZ/LcESkMHYmC8aBeMCbkDc= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (FreeBSD) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:8408 On 2015-08-19, True Satan wrote: > I have less than fond memories of downloading Star Office via a > miserable metered dial-up connection and that it would not work with > an interrupted, and later resumed, connection...the thought of having > to go through that hell again to upgrade to a later version coloured > my judgement somewhat though in use I had no great issues to report. Ha ha, that is my exact memory of downloading the (awesome) Ximian gnome desktop for SuSE (either 7.1 or maybe 8.0). Compared to other desktops, Ximian's was really refined, and it came with the comparatively awesome Evolution email client, which was the big draw for me. But you connected to your metered dial up, pumped a raw wget script into an xterm, and went to bed, hoping for the best. If memory serves, it took me three tries before my dialup connection was able to swallow the large download required to install the damned thing. After so much time, money, and anxiety, I was afraid to do anything at all that might screw it up! Interesting thought: replicating that desktop must now be impossible. No old ISOs or repos would hold it, Ximian is long gone, dead, and buried, and I can't think of any other way you could fire up a VM with an old distro and reinstall Ximian. Interesting note for posterity - it's gone, thanks to its choice of distribution mechanism.