[Linux4christians] Ubuntu opts for LibreOffice LDigest, Vol 81, Issue 16

[Georges]

Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 22:48 -0500,
linux4christians-request at thelinuxlink.net a écrit :
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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Ubuntu opts for LibreOffice over Oracle's	OpenOffice
>       (Fred A. Miller)
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> The Ubuntu <http://www.ubuntu.com> developers met last week in Dallas to
> make final design decisions about the popular Linux distribution's
> features and decided to use LibreOffice <http://www.libreoffice.org> for
> its office suite.
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It was only a question of whether or not LibreOffice would be ready in
time for the Ubuntu 11.04 release.

For the past several releases the version of OpenOffice within Ubuntu
has been their version of Go-oo, i.e., the Novell supported edition of
OpenOffice.org . I just clicked on the little [i] icon on the welcome
page of OpenOffice within my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and it led me to
http://www.go-oo.org/ where the last line is "Going forward, the Go-oo
project will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice."

I suspect it is also only a matter of time before IBM morphs its
Symphony suite to be based on LibreOffice rather than OpenOffice. My
hope is that IBM will release the features of Lotus WordPro that I still
miss in Open/LibreOffice. At least I can open most of my older WordPro
documents in Ubuntu's OpenOffice and fully expect to be able to do so in
Libre/Office.

Georges