The latest Fedora 20 update seem to have broken it. It attempts to launch, and then dies with: /usr/bin/soffice: line 121: 6490 Bus error (core dumped) “$sd_prog/$sd_binary” “$@”
This is not good. I need that program. I may have to install Libre Office until it gets resolved.
Not sure why you insist upon using Fedora. Youa re essentially a Beta tester and things simply do not remain stable. I started having trouble with it year ago. So I switched to Ubuntu and have never had any trouble.
Maybe I’ll have to do that. 20 has supposedly been out of beta for months.
I’ve been a Ubuntu user for years since I switched from Fedora.
Alternately, CentOS if what you want is Fedora but stabler (and older).
Honestly, if stability is what you’re after just run Debian’s stable branch, it’s no joke. None of the bells and whistles of Ubuntu, but it won’t crash like…ever.
All very good observations from the commenters thus far. If you’re committed to the Fedora ecosystem, switching to the free recompilations of Red Hat Enterprise (like CentOS and Scientific Linux) is your best bet. The RHEL 7 family is supposed to be pretty amazing.
My favorite all-around distro is Linux Mint; it’s built on Ubuntu’s “it just works out of the box” foundation, but the interface (whether it be MATE, Cinnamon, KDE or Xfce) is much more familiar than Ubuntu’s Unity. Mint also seems to have better software packages out of the box, including Libre Office in all of its respins.
Debian is great too, and its stable branch certainly lives up to its name. My only caution is that Debian takes a bit more tweaking than its Ubuntu and Mint brethern. Debian is still vastly easier to install and configure now than it was about 10-15 years ago though.