LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. The goal is to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements. As free software, users are free to download, modify, use and distribute LibreOffice.
LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice, it is open-source, community-driven and developed software by the not--profit organization, The Document Foundation.
After 4 RC releases, the first stable release was released( 3.3/25 January 2011). It's available in more than 30 languages and for all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
The LibreOffice Start Center
Some New Features
- Import SVG pictures into Draw and edit them interactively
- New easy-to-use dialog box for title pages
- Navigator lets you unfold one heading as usual in a tree view
- MS Works import filter
- Load and Save ODF documents in flat XML to make external XSLT processing easier
- SVG import into Writer
- Lotus Word Pro import filter
For Ubuntu users, you can use PPA to install it ;)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa-- GNOME:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libreoffice
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome
-- KDE:
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde
1 comment:
I really can't wait for them to improve the forked project, the "spreadsheet" still takes ages to open big files. A lot of other improvements is still needed. But this is still great software. Check here for more thoughts on this:
http://www.high-on-it.co.za/2011/02/get-free-office-suite-today-with-libre.html
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