OpenOffice dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04

By Ricky on February 5th, 2010

Update: Abiword and Gnumeric are now most likely to replace OpenOffice.

According to the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix Blueprint, the Ubuntu community are planning to drop OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release, atleast for now. Now documents will be opened by default in Google Docs. (After this article, the blueprint got a lot of feedbacks and complaints against inclusion of Google Docs. Now they have decided to use Abiword and Gnumeric instead of Google Docs.)

We have previously told you about Gimp being dropped from Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu replacing Google with Yahoo as the default search engine.

The developers have been removing applications that are irrelevant on a netbook. While document editing is clearly a not irrelevant on a netbook, the developers feel that with netbooks being used mostly for internet related works, Google Docs will suffice.

Apart from this, some other changes have also been introduced.

Several applications have been hidden by default:

Brasero/CD Creator hidden
Disk Usage Analyzer hidden
Print job management hidden
Take screenshot hidden
Dictionary hidden
Log system viewer hidden

And some other have been dropped in addition to OpenOffice:

Tomboy dropped
PalmOS pilot dropped
Graphics applications removed

While new ones have been added to provide better netbook functionalities:

gbrainy added (gbrainy is a brain teaser game)
Gwibber added (Gwibber is a microblogging client)
Cheese added (Cheese is an application to take pictures and videos from webcam)

[source: UNE Blueprint]

http://digitizor.com/2009/11/19/gimp-to-be-dropped-from-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx/

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pablo.uy

I don’t get it. They drop Google as default search engine in favor of Yahoo!, but now they use Google Docs for opening documents?

Personally, I wonder why didn’t they integrate Abiword and Gnumeric instead of dropping to Google Docs. This would allow editing offline, and woldn’t have a very large footprint on system size, would they?

Ricky

I think they did not choose Abiword because they consider it to be not stable enough for inclusion in a LTS release.
wumpscuto

maybe because Abiword and Gnumeric sucks

http://adamnorman.com adam

I don’t get it. OpenOffice opens speedily on my netbook (faster than on my Macbook, I’d swear), and I, like everybody else, have a 160GB hard drive.

So if it’s not about speed, and it’s not about size, what is it about?
blight

cheese was included by default in 9.10 and 9.04 in unr. There is nothing stopping people from installing openoffice themselves. But some netbooks come with 4GB drives and every MB counts.
What the

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gbrainy count as relevant for a netbook user, but not Open office.
My god! They are kidding?

Ricky

Yes I agree including gbrainy is a weird decision

upset

GAH!
NO NO NO NO.. why could they not read the google terms of service?
what? is google funding them to do this to us?

i’m going to another version of linux.
complover

So… Ubuntu also wants to under Google umbrella. Curious… what’s the meaning of open-source?
World

Google funding them? Lol. Google’s marketing budget is about as big as Steve Ballmer’s brain. Google don’t need to pay people to use their products, they just make them the best and let the rest work itself out.
semsemdavinci

come on people.. you still can install openoffice at anytime.. they assume that as it’s called “NetBooks”, it would make sense if it used online tools whenever possible (office apps, translation.. etc.) which seems to be fair enough, i think..
anyway you can just choose to instal ubuntu desktop edition instead, i think.. right?!
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andruk

It’s just a blueprint, of which there are thousands on Brainstorm that are not implemented and will not be implemented. A blueprint is simply a fleshed-out plan of an idea that somebody had, not a set-in-stone implementation as your article suggests. I would advise you not to be overly dramatic about blueprints, especially this one, but this is your blog and you probably need the advertising revenue, so good luck with that.

Ricky

It’s just a blueprint, of which there are thousands on Brainstorm

Brainstorm and Blueprints are different.

A blueprint is simply a fleshed-out plan of an idea that somebody had

It is not quite that. You can’t get any idea you have Approved in the blueprint.
If you actually saw the blueprint, you will see that dropping Oo is maked as “Done” under Changes.

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k

This is sad news indeed for free and open source software; Google Docs is a proprietary piece of software, why would Ubuntu support it in this way?
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It’d be nice if the ‘author’ didn’t inject his own opinions. The blueprint doesn’t involve google docs in any way. In fact the blueprint only states that open office will be removed, NOT that google docs will be a replacement.

This is a logical decision to save space and regardless, netbooks don’t have much in the way of power and a full office suite is rather useless. (Although you can always sudo apt-get install openoffice if you so desire.)

Now stop with the fud already, it’s pathetic.

Ricky

If you had checked the blueprint earlier, it was clearly written over there that documents will be opened in Google Docs.
Of course after this article, the blueprint got so many feedback requests and complaints against Google Docs being used. Now they are looking at Abiword and Gnumeric.

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There is nothing stopping people from installing openoffice themselves. But some netbooks come with 4GB drives and every MB counts.
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have a cry.. open software centre and download voila. boohoo if you dont like the default set. there’s really nothing to discuss here
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@chels I know what you mean, its hard to find good help these days. People now days just don’t have the work ethic they used to have. I mean consider whoever wrote this post, they must have been working hard to write that good and it took a good bit of their time I am sure. I work with people who couldn’t write like this if they tried, and getting them to try is hard enough as it is.
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GREAT whistleblowing site! Google Docs have no place among open source products! Ubuntu team – shame on you for even thinking this!
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