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Tag Archives: openoffice
Document Foundation 1, Oracle 0: OpenOffice discarded, left to the community
Oracle, the “owners” of OpenOffice, have announced the discontinuation of commercial development on the popular office suite. OpenOffice will be continued as a community project.
The question is: does anyone still care?
LibreOffice 3.3 RC2 released, available for download
The Document Foundation’s “LibreOffice” Team has announced another release candidate that’s now available for download.
How to Install LibreOffice from a repository in Ubuntu
A temporary repository for LibreOffice – the newly-announced fork of OpenOffice – has been set up for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian-based distributions to use.
LibreOffice – Google, Novell sponsored OpenOffice fork launched
The OpenOffice development community have today announced the launch of a new foundation – The Document Foundation – that will oversee, guide and develop a new fork of OpenOffice named ‘LibreOffice’.
It’s Not The Hokey Cokey; OpenOffice BACK In Ubuntu Netbook Edition After User Outcry
The community outcry over the removal of OpenOffice from Ubuntu Netbook Edition has seen developers reaching for a rethink over the controversial decision. The first reversal earlier this week that saw AbiWord and GNUMeric step in as replacements. Now the decision has been fully reversed: OpenOffice WILL be installed by default in Ubuntu Netbook Edition. [...]
AbiWord & Gnumeric To Replace OpenOffice in Ubuntu Netbook Edition
A few days ago we shared word that the OpenOffice.org suite of apps was to be dropped from default installs of Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition. Many of you cheered, many of you did a double-take but most of you agreed OOo was overkill on small, underpowered netbooks. The proposed solution of switching to Google Docs [...]
OpenOffice 3.2 Coming November – What’s New
OpenOffice is the default Office suite in Ubuntu, and most other Linux distros, and for good reason, too – it’s more than an equal for Microsoft’s all-dominant Microsoft Office suite. Version 3.2 will be released towards the end of November 2009. What will be new? Speedier Startups GTK integration Gnome Encryption support for Microsoft Office [...]
OpenOffice File Thumbnails In Nautilus
Nautilus (the default file manager in Ubuntu) is able to display thumbnails for various different types of files: photos, video, audio, text documents, etc. With a simple script it can also display thumbnails for OpenOffice files. It creates mini-previews for all native OpenOffice file formats. Installation To get thumbnail previews for OpenOffice files you need [...]