Open Office and / or Libre Office

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2011/12/7 LinuxIsOne <reallife at hmamail.com>:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>
>> mostly the same - libreoffice was forked from openoffice after the evil
>> empire known as Oracle bought Sun and people feared the worst. Though
>> the code base has diverged some since and Oracle has turned openoffice
>> over to the Apache foundation, there's really little difference at this
>> point and the best idea is to use whatever is packaged by your version
>> of Ubuntu unless you really, really need a newer version.
>
> Oh I see. Then I think Open Office is sufficient and okay.

Traditionally (as far as I have seen), Ubuntu's versions of
OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice has been very buggy so far, though. I
usually uninstall the crap and install the vanilla version, but if you
have no problems I guess that would not be necessary…


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
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