libreoffice

It seems that LibreOffice is riding a fortunate wave and continues its development and expansion every day.

Although LibreOffice 3.4 final/stable has been released weeks ago , there are people, companies who still use LibreOffice 3.3.2 and, for stability reasons, can't update to 3.4 version.

Months ago, Oracle bought OpenOffice.org, and, shortly after, LibreOffice project was born, in order to continue this open-source community-based office suite.

Days ago, Oracle announced the intention to donate OpenOffice.org to Apache.

Consequently, LibreOffice (created by the members of OpenOffice.org) is caught in a confusion zone. Ok, but, why???

LibreOffice, acting from a natural approach, would welcome/welcomes OpenOffice.org and express unity-like desires towards its brothers.

LibreOffice 3.4 final/stable has been released just now, after months of hardworking and a quite huge amount of bug fixes (almost 8.000!!!).

What is new in LibreOffice 3.4 final?

It seems that the Document Foundation Team, the team behind the continuous progress and development of the open-source office suite LibreOffice, is riding an fortunate wave.

Oracle, as of today, has announced the "proposal to contribute the OpenOffice.org code to The Apache Software Foundation's Incubator", continuing to "demonstrate its commitment to the developer and open source communities", in order "to continue well into the future".

I am using LibreOffice and I really want to create an awesome presentation for my project, but I lack the appropriate inspiration/I really don't have time...

If this is your attitude, say no more and take a look at this free-ware LibreOffice professional presentations (.otp files).

This LibreOffice design templates include adjusted color palette, text lines and headlines suitable for almost any serious presentation, being optimized for print, also.

LibreOffice 3.4 RC 1 is out and available to download and test, making yet another step towards 3.4 final, the next major release of LibreOffice.

This is mainly a bug fixes-related release, with fixes and improvements in LibreOffice Writer (.rtf handling improvements, various crashes, etc), a boost in launching speed, and, also, the toolbar icons have been updated for a proper integration.

How do we install LibreOffice 3.4 RC 1?

LibreOffice 3.4 has just reached its fifth BETA, mainly a stability-related release, a step forward in the coming 3.4 stable version.

Along with bug fixes, LibreOffice 3.4 BETA 5 brings some individual improvements in Writer, Calculator, some resolved conflicts with GNOME, translation improvements and updated dictionaries.

How do we install LibreOffice 3.4 BETA 5?

It seems that not only the web-browsers have increased their release activities, but also LibreOffice, the default open-source office suite in Ubuntu (starting with Natty).

The 3.4 version is in progress at the moment, and , just now, the Document Foundation has released the 4th BETA of LibreOffice 3.4, release that is usable in Ubuntu, both 32 and 64-bit (the first 3 BETAs were unusable due to a launch-related bug).

So, what is new in LibreOffice 3.4 BETA 4?

The LibreOffice project was born as a "rebellion" against corporate interest and with open-source community-based decisions, it was a fork of the OpenOffice.org code base, fork made by the OpenOffice.org Community.

A few days ago, Oracle announced that will "free" OpenOffice", throwing the project in more capable hands, the community's.