workswithu.com: This year (2010) marks the 10th anniversary of a lot of things: Tuvalu’s entry into the United Nations, Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon, and the debut of Windows ME, for example. But much more importantly, 2010 marks OpenOffice.org’s tenth year of existence.
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Not too long ago, many, yours truly included, thought that OpenOffice was dead. That opinion was informed by the decision the major Linux distributions made to replace OpenOffice.org, as it was known at that time, with LibreOffice, the new office suite forked from OpenOffice.org by its former contributors. If this is all news to you, [...]
OpenOffice is the most popular Office suite running for Linux system. It consist of many program such as Spreadsheet, OpenOffice Word and many more. The new version of OpenOffice.org 3.3 for Linux system is available for download. This new version comes with many improvements and bug fixes. Like many people say that OpenOffice.Org is the [...]
OpenOffice.org 3.x is the leading open-source open software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. You can adjust openoffice to your needs by adding more functionality with the help of extensions. In this article we chosed for you some useful extensions for openoffice with installation guide.
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During OpenOffice.org's tenth anniversary, Oracle announced it will participate in ODF Plugfest, one of the conferences aimed at furthering the Open Document Format interoperability, held October 14 - 15 in Brussels . Oracle also stated they would continue developing, improving, and releasing OpenOffice.org as open source software.
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I have been working on OpenOffice Writer most of the time when it was by default used by any linux flavour. Don't know what goes wrong and all linux distros give LibreOffice suite. But does LibreOffice really work as stable and great as OpenOffice Suite?
Is there any PPA for ubuntu that supplies OpenOffice suite to install and update regularly?
今天突然从遥远的国度传来震撼性消息,OpenOffice.org 社区的一群开发者宣布建立 Document Foundation (文档基金会?)组织,并且宣布建立一个新的 OpenOffice.org 分支——LibreOffice。建立新品牌的目的是为了避免以后和原来的 OpenOffice.org 之间可能存在的商标纠纷。新的基金会欢迎任何组织和个人参与推广 LibreOffice,他们特别欢迎 OpenOffice.org 的开发者参与,共同创造一个世界领先的开源办公软件。
说起来真是突然,不过这个新项目得到了众多重量级的组织支持,比如 FSF、Google、Red Hat、Novell、Canonical、GNOME 基金会。
It's terrible when I use openoffice to view ppt files.Openoffice always takes a few seconds to reply after I press pagedown button.And it uses too much memory source.Opening a 3 mb ppt ,it will take 200 mb memory.Does this is a bug to openoffice?
Not able to open openoffice from Applications - Office after installing - openoffice.org.ure-1:.3.1.1-19.14.fc12 -------- Update.