During the last week of January, the developers of PCLinuxOS decided to replace OpenOffice.org with LibreOffice. I have made the switch on my laptop, and found no real difference when it comes to usability. The switch came with the Version 3.3 release of OpenOffice.org.
This comes at a time when Oracle Corporation filed a lawsuit against Google for its use of the Java platform for Android development, and that Solaris is once again a commercial product.
As I understand this, OpenOffice.org is still an open source project, but the graphics used are now trademarked by Oracle Corporation. LibreOffice is also an open source project, but is licensed under the GPL Lesser Public License, and the graphic and documentation content are licensed under a Creative Commons license.
As of this writing, PCLinuxOS officially supports only the LibreOffice distribution, and only when installed through the LOManager (installation utility) provided with PCLinuxOS with most of its variants.
You can install the current OpenOffice.org release on PCLinuxOS, but the process is quite extensive, and you have to be logged in as root to do so.
So what do I think of LibreOffice? What is there not to love about LibreOffice? It functions like OpenOffice, loads and saves the same documents as OpenOffice, and uses many of the same extensions and templates available for OpenOffice.
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LibreOffice replaces OpenOffice.org
During the last week of January, the developers of PCLinuxOS decided to replace OpenOffice.org with LibreOffice. I have made the switch on my laptop, and found no real difference when it comes to usability. The switch came with the Version 3.3 release of OpenOffice.org.
This comes at a time when Oracle Corporation filed a lawsuit against Google for its use of the Java platform for Android development, and that Solaris is once again a commercial product.
As I understand this, OpenOffice.org is still an open source project, but the graphics used are now trademarked by Oracle Corporation. LibreOffice is also an open source project, but is licensed under the GPL Lesser Public License, and the graphic and documentation content are licensed under a Creative Commons license.
As of this writing, PCLinuxOS officially supports only the LibreOffice distribution, and only when installed through the LOManager (installation utility) provided with PCLinuxOS with most of its variants.
You can install the current OpenOffice.org release on PCLinuxOS, but the process is quite extensive, and you have to be logged in as root to do so.
So what do I think of LibreOffice? What is there not to love about LibreOffice? It functions like OpenOffice, loads and saves the same documents as OpenOffice, and uses many of the same extensions and templates available for OpenOffice.
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This entry was posted on 2011/02/10 at 6:56 pm and is filed under General Commentary . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.