January 25, 2011
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The Document Foundation’s LibreOffice, the OpenOffice office suite fork, is on a winning streak. No sooner than Ubuntu lets the world know that LibreOffice is its office suite of choice, than the next day the first full, shipping version of … Continue reading
January 23, 2011
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The Ubuntu developers met last week in Dallas to make final design decisions about the popular Linux distribution’s features and decided to use LibreOffice for its office suite. This comes as no surprise to Ubuntu watchers. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth … Continue reading
January 5, 2011
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LibreOffice, the Oracle-free fork of the OpenOffice office suite, may, or may not, end up being the default office suite in Ubuntu, but its first release is almost here. Before getting into that though, there have been rumors running around … Continue reading
November 1, 2010
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Ubuntu’s new Unity Linux desktop interface is the change that everyone is talking about, but it was far from the only change that Canonical and Ubuntu‘s developers are making to Ubuntu’s desktop. In fact, even without the change from straight … Continue reading
October 19, 2010
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Well, that didn’t take long. When The Document Foundation (TDF) created LibreOffice from OpenOffice’s code, they let the door open for Oracle, OpenOffice’s main stake-owner, to join them. Oracle’s reply was to tell anyone involved with LibreOffice to get the … Continue reading
October 4, 2010
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It’s not that Oracle wishes ill of The Document Foundation and its take on OpenOffice, LibreOffice. Oracle just isn’t going to be having anything to do with it. When The Document Foundation released the beta of LibreOffice, the group wanted … Continue reading