Ubuntu Netbook Edition has dropped OpenOffice in favour of Google Docs. One of my friends asked me if this was because a netbook’s resources were not enough for Ubuntu and OpenOffice.
I doubt. We were able to get 55MB of RAM usage with plain Openbox and some XFCE accessories on a stock Ubuntu installation (so that the machine could still use the local repository). Even with Abiword or Gnumeric it did not exceed 90MB, and that worked quite swiftly on a machine with 256 MB RAM and old enough to be low-powered than today’s netbooks. All this with font anti-aliasing and pretty window decorations.
So I think that this decision is either because of the trend of choosing browsered applications over desktop applications, or because netbook users do not see office suites as necessary.
March 14th, 2010 at 4:12 am
I like OO.o, i dont use google-docs. I think its better to use offline aplications, because there isnt normal wi-fi in some countries (for example in my town wi-max is only developing).