Tag Archives: openoffice

OpenOffice – A House of Sand

Written by Keith Curtis on . Posted in News, opensource, Software

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“When Apache foundation released OpenOffice 3.4, many people wondered what is the point of OpenOffice existence, and what is, or what should be the current relation with LibreOffice. Unixmen came in contact with the people behind the project, and did … Continue reading

Rob Weir explains the OpenOffice resurrection | Interview

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in interviews

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Last week, we had the first OpenOffice release, since the project was donated to the Apache foundation. This raised a lot of questions and many users wondered what is the point, or what is the difference with the Libre “brother”? … Continue reading

Apache OpenOffice 3.4 released!

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in News, opensource, Software

After having to fight with strange corporate tides, controversial management strategies and finally the danger of completely dying, OpenOffice was “donated” to the Apache Software Foundation almost one year ago. Today we had the announcement of the first release of … Continue reading

LibreOffice Initiates Templates and Extensions Repository for Beta Testing

Written by Emily Cartman on . Posted in Software

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. … Continue reading

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

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Software

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 … Continue reading

Why Oracle choose to donate OpenOffice to Apache?

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in News

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 to non-parent open source incubator such as Apache Software Foundation Oracle has once again … Continue reading

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

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Software

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 … Continue reading

LibreOffice 3.4 Beta3 has been released!

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Software

The Document Foundation released the third beta  of LibreOffice 3.4.  The upcoming 3.4 will be the second major release of the LibreOffice project, and comes with many exciting new features.  The final version of LibreOffice 3.4 scheduled to arrive on 31 May.

LibreOffice3.4 Beta1 is released!

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Software

The first beta release of LibreOffice 3.4 is available, The upcoming 3.4 will be the second major release of the LibreOffice project, and comes with many exciting new features.

LibreOffice 3.3.2 is released! With installation instructions

Written by anuradha.shukla on . Posted in Software

Announced today by the Document fundation the release of LibreOffice3.3.2, this is an update release that comes to improve the stability of the software and sets the platform for the next release 3.4, due in mid May.