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The growth of LibreOffice over Microsoft Office

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LibreOffice after one and half-years as an open source office productivity suite has grown from being just a fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) and emerged as an independent tool for those who prefer the openness and scope of work copyleft offers over claustrophobic copyright licenses and proprietary software. Following the game-changing split and backing by The Document Foundation (TDF) LibreOffice has over 25,000 code commits and 330 contributors. Secondly, it has over 15million Linux OS users, a further 10 million users are split between Microsoft (90-percent) and Mac OS X (5- percent). 

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Libreoffice 3.5 has been released!| Install in Ubuntu10.04 and 11.10, fedora, debian, LinuxMint | PPA

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LibreOffice 3.5 has been released, this is a major release that comes with many new features and improvements, in this release for the first time will be enabled the online update checker which informs users when a new version of the suite is available.

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LibreOffice Initiates Templates and Extensions Repository for Beta Testing

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LibreOffice, the famous office suite, can be improved further- thanks to the countless number of templates and extensions. These goodies are available for download and users can enhance the functionality of the suite to tailor it according to their needs. Plus developers can write add-ons and then share them among millions of people worldwide.

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LibreOffice and OpenOffice reach the Crossroads – differ by 7.7 million new code lines

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Yes, LibreOffice did fork away from OpenOffice in September of 2010. Open Office, then was the default standard in office suites for open source software and had a large user-base. Besides, it was a strong contender against proprietary software such as Microsoft Word. After Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, the parent company of OpenOffice, it initially, remained non-committal on continuing as a free software suite. This prompted developers of OpenOffice code to start afresh with LibreOffice Project, under The Documentation Foundation.

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LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download

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The Document Foundation announces the availability of LibreOffice 3.3.3, a new release of the most stable version of the free office suite for personal productivity, targetingcorporate users. LibreOffice 3.3.3 is already available for download at the following address: http://www.libreoffice.org/download. According to Thorsten Behrens, a developer and member of the TDF Steering Committee, “LibreOffice 3.3.3 fixes several bugs and improves the security of the suite, to specifically address the needs of corporate deployments, where stability is more important than new features.

 

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Why Oracle choose to donate OpenOffice to Apache?

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The success story of Open Office took a nosedive when the proprietary software giant Oracle picked up Sun Microsystems and through it OpenOffice. With its donation toopenoffice_logo non-parent open source incubator such as Apache Software Foundation Oracle has once again broilered itself in more OpenOffice controversies. Is Oracle right in choosing ASF over The Documentation Foundation is a question that open source community is asking. The Documentation Foundation or TDF is where the original OpenSource. Org development team today develops the fork LibreOffice application suite.

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LibreOffice 3.4.0 is released! Installation instructions for Ubuntu, fedora, Debian

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LibreOffice 3.4.0 is released! This is the second major release of the suite since the announcement of The Document Foundation in September 2010 and incorporates the contributions of over 120 developers (six times as many as the first beta released on the launch date).

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