Where to, LibreOffice?

[Dick Dowdell]

http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html


On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Jose I Diaz Bardales <
jose.dbardales at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/10/2012 07:06 PM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> > On Nov 10, 2012 5:56 PM, "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com
> > <mailto:kogorman at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> After a long time away, I find myself coming back to a word
> > processor.  I'm about to write for publication, and they prefer a
> > word-compatible format.  I used to use OpenOffice a bit, and don't
> > remember having any trouble with it.  Now the repos seem to only have
> > LibreOffice -- the things named after OpenOffice seem to be all
> > transitional packages, not really OpenOffice at all.
> >>
> >> I've been at this a day, and I've already filed 3 bugs.  This does not
> > seem good.  Before I spend the effort to switch over to see if things
> > really *are* better over there, would someone please comment about the
> > pros/cons of downloading and using OpenOffice on xubuntu/ubuntu?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Kevin O'Gorman
> >>
> >> programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software.
> >
> > OO.o is still maintained? I thought the dev community all went to LO. LO
> > is what I use for the simple reason that it is actively maintained, and
> > in the repo's. I believe it was forked from OO.o as well. I think there
> > were shennanigans involving Oracle or someone, but I can't remember the
> > exact details. Anyway, LO produces word docs just fine. Do it all the
> > time at work for people who won't use free software.
>
> I believe OpenOffice in now develop by the Apache Foundation and the
> last thing I heard they were working on a OO version for the cloud.
>
> Anyways, You should be able to open, edit, and save all your documents
> as *.doc or *.docx
>
> IMHO LibreOffice does have some minor bugs, but you should be able to
> work on your documents unless you have some very special requirements.
>
> HTH
>
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