OpenOffice.org's main development community has split off and founded LibreOffice, freeing the alternative office suite from Oracle supervision. If you'd like to make the switch on your own Ubuntu, ...

Anurag's interest in technology was sparked around 15 years ago when he first tried a Nokia smartphone, one of those Windows-powered devices. Having only used feature phones up until then, he was ...

Also in today’s open source roundup: Why do some people hate the freedesktop.org project? And 10 command-line tools for data analysis in Linux LibreOffice is one of the best office suites available, ...

For some Linux adopters, exchanging Microsoft Office in Windows for the OpenOffice suite is a radical change in computing behavior. Swapping out OpenOffice for the LibreOffice suite may be a lot less ...

More than two years after LibreOffice came into being, it's hard to call the open source office software anything but a success. There are possibly tens of millions of people who use it—or at least ...

Versions of Microsoft Office were the most popular productivity software for years. However, now people have enough free open-source options to choose from. One of the most popular of these options is ...

Looking to add fonts to LibreOffice? We’ve talked before about how LibreOffice is one of the best possible Microsoft Word replacements and how its open platform compares to others. One of the big ...

If your needs don’t include macro and programming compatibility, this office suite might just wean you away from Microsoft. If you’re feeling like an overtaxed and unappreciated serf in Microsoft’s ...