The results are in on the voting to make OpenOffice.org an Apache Incubator project and the idea got approved, by a majority of voters.
I know that many people here are recommending LibreOffice, but what if I want to use OpenOffice? How do I install it? I see in Synaptic Package Manager that, if I choose openoffice.org, it will also install a number of libreoffice packages. Seems that it will install LibreOffice rather than OpenOffice.I got an issue with LibreOffice on Mac but my spreadsheet works fine in OpenOff
This week, the main talking point in the world of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is Oracle giving OpenOffice.org to the Apache foundation. There has been interesting developments for Ubuntu as well.
Dj Walker-Morgan over at the H Open writes: "The Document Foundation is a newly founded organisation with a mission: to make an office suite available as truly free software, developed within the wider community. Supported by companies like Google, Novell and Red Hat, the Foundation has forked the Oracle-owned OpenOffice software and created LibreOffice.
LibreOffice 3.3.0, announced on Tuesday, is the first milestone release of the open-source productivity suite from The Document Foundation since it split from the Oracle-led OpenOffice consortium in September. The release brings new features as well as popular options found in OpenOffice 3.3, according to the foundation.
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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?
Just over a year ago the open source Office Suite world was disturbed by indecision, much the same way world stock markets have been upset by uncertainty today. Oracle had purchased Sun Microsystems and with it the “ownership” of the open source office suite OpenOffice.org.
LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. LibreOffice is a fork of the famous project OpenOffice project which is now under Oracle. It is free software and servers all your basic needs.
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, [...]
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