LibreOffice 4 has just arrived and, at first glance, this popular open-source office suite looks really good.
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LibreOffice 4: A new, better open-source office suite
February 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
LibreOffice goes for “cleaner and leaner code base” with major update
February 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cleaning up the code has been a major focus. “The resulting code base is rather different from the original one, as several million lines of code have been added and removed, by adding new features, solving bugs and regressions, adopting state of the art C++ constructs, replacing tools, getting rid of deprecated methods and obsoleted libraries, and translating twenty-five thousand lines of comments from German to English,” the Document Foundation said in its LibreOffice 4.0 announcement. “All of this makes the code easier to understand and more rewarding to be involved with for the stream of new members of our community.”
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LibreOffice 4.0 Released With Immense Changes
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Highlights of LibreOffice 4.0
February 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
With LibreOffice 4.0, the Document Foundation has bumped the major version number of its office suite for the first time since the project split from the OpenOffice.org code base. This version increase is more of a cultural and symbolic change than it is an indicator of major new features. Nonetheless, LibreOffice 4.0 introduces a number of functional improvements and underlying polish to the open source office package that is worth a look.
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LibreOffice 4.0 Release to Widen Divide with OpenOffice
February 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
It was in September of 2010 that the formation of the Document Foundation was announced. It’s now two and a half years later, and with the release of LibreOffice 4.0, its not only flourishing, but forging a path independent of its predecessor.
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LibreOffice 4.0 Alpha 1 Is Freed For Testing
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LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice, Not Always Simple
October 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
LibreOffice may have the community and momentum, but that doesn’t mean it is the better choice for every document.
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The H Roundup – CDE open sourced, LibreOffice 3.6.0 and GNOME OS
August 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In the week ending 11 August – the CDE desktop was open sourced, plans were made for GNOME OS, Linux Mint forked Nautilus, and Damn Small Linux reappeared. Also, Digia acquired Qt from Nokia and LibreOffice 3.6.0 arrived
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LibreOffice 3.6 Open-Source Office Suite Released
August 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
LibreOffice 3.6 was released today, which is described by the project as “the fourth major release of the best free office suite ever.”..
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LibreOffice 3.6.0 RC4 Is Available for Download
July 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Document Foundation has announced last evening, July 29th, that the fourth and final Release Candidate version of the upcoming LibreOffice 3.6 office suite is available for download and testing.
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Run LibreOffice In Google Chrome, Chromebooks
July 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Just the way there is a LO plugin for Google Docs, there is an excellent app for Chrome which allows you to run LibreOffice within the Chrome browser. So, now Chromebook or Chromebox owners can run LibreOffice on their devices.
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News: Linus Goes for 7 on Linux 3.5 as CentOS and LibreOffice Move Forward
July 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Some Linux kernels require more release candidates than others, no matter what Linus Torvalds wants.
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