Software rights activist Richard Stallman is backing LibreOffice in the quest to provide a free software alternative to Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org has long been the primary free and open source ...

Anurag's interest in technology was sparked around 15 years ago when he first tried a Nokia smartphone, one of those Windows-powered devices. Having only used feature phones up until then, he was ...

When Oracle, IBM, and the Apache Software Foundation jointly announced last week that OpenOffice.org would become an official Apache project, some open-source developers were not happy. The Document ...

If there was any doubt as to the long-term capability of LibreOffice to sprint ahead of Oracle-backed OpenOffice.org, those concerns pretty much just flew out the window. In a wildly successful ...

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Last Friday we asked HEXUS readers to tell us all about what free software they would always install and recommend on a new build PC. A number of programs stood out as being backed by a large number ...

They created a different-branded version of the open source office suite, LibreOffice, aimed at putting the entire project out of the reach of Oracle’s influence and allowing them to build an ...

One quirk about installing LibreOffice is that you have to download and install the help files separately. While annoying, adding the help file is trivial. Once the full package is up and running, you ...

The Document Foundation has written to HEXUS to announce the launch of the LibreOffice 6.2 software suite with NotebookBar. The organisation heralds LibreOffice 6.2 as "a significant major release… ...

LibreOffice code is among the cleanest you'll find, with one-tenth the defect density of the average proprietary code base for similar-scale apps For old-timers, the venerable OpenOffice.org codebase ...

If you’ve ever used free and open source software for any length of time, you’re probably already aware that much of the work done to develop, test, and maintain that software is accomplished by ...

With the announcement of LibreOffice 6.3 Beta 1, the open source office suite has stopped providing 32-bit binaries for the Linux platform although 32-bit compatibility has not yet been removed from ...