When I first started using Linux, way back in the last century, one of the biggest challenges was the lack of a decent productivity suite of the sort to which every Windows user is accustomed. The ...

Go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources... Enter your password. Go to the second tab, "Third-Party Software," click on the "Add" button, and paste the line below for your Ubuntu ...

Give your Writer documents, Calc spreadsheets, and Impress presentations more impact by using the great add-ons for the productivity suite. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

Most free software accumulates myths. Most people only know about it second hand (if at all), but few are slowed by the fact that they don't know what they are talking about. As a large desktop ...

Now 15 years old, the open source productivity suite is still gaining fans and improving compatibility with its chief rival, Microsoft Office. Readers weigh in on version 3 of the suite. Although ...

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Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. OpenOffice.org 3.0 is the best, cheapest alternative to ...

Oracle has proposed contributing the OpenOffice.org code to the Apache Software Foundation's (ASF's) incubator program. So far, there is no announcement per se from Oracle, but there is a collection ...

FOREST HILL, Md., Dec. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Earlier this year the OpenOffice.org code base was donated to The Apache Software Foundation. The resulting project, Apache OpenOffice ...

OpenOffice.org is now officially part of the Apache family. The project is known as Apache OpenOffice.org (incubating). Over its 12-year history, the ASF has welcomed contributions from individuals ...

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) released an extension for OpenOffice.org Writer that enables users to save documents as Braille or to send them directly to a Braille embosser.

A vote was put to the members of the Apache Software Foundation last week to accept Oracle's source code contribution to Openoffice.org. Fears apparently exist among the dissenters that free open ...