05 Jan 2011

Ubuntu 11.04 will ship LibreOffice instead of OOo

Posted in Technology By Florian Effenberger On January 5, 2011

According to this posting, https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-January/032298.html, Ubuntu 11.04 will ship LibreOffice instead of OOo. Several other distributions are rumored to at least ship LibreOffice by default. Great times ahead!

Comments

  1. By Miguel

    humm well good news, still im a long time openoffice and gooo user and even though libreoffice sounds awesome, compared with gooo 3.2, libreoffice 3.3 rc2 for windows is painfully slow, not even comparable, if you launch the final libreoffice 3.3 with the performance it has now, it will be practically unusable, i’ve gone back to goo 3.2 because of it.

  2. By Keith Bates

    I tried Libre Office yesterday and found it was totally useless for designing and using forms in Base. Controls and toolbars would not pop up, multiple items could not be selected for aligning objects and a macro that has worked for years in OO does not work in Libre.

    I’m back to OO too.If ubuntu ships it with 11.04 then if it’s not up to scratch by then I’ll stick with OO

  3. By abis

    are there any differences between OpenOffice 3.3 and LibreOffice 3.3

  4. By David

    Just a note that I’m using the tuxfamily distribution/repository on Ubuntu 10.10, and it is working great!

    I’m not sure exactly which version of LO I’m using, but this is from my help–>about window:
    LibreOffice 3.3.0
    OOO330m19 (Build:5)
    tag libreoffice-3.3.0.3

    Many thanks to the hard work of the developers, and the community. The LibreOffice project is looking awesome, and the fork should have come years ago.

    David