When I first started using Linux, way back in the last century, one of the biggest challenges was the lack of a decent productivity suite of the sort to which every Windows user is accustomed. The ...

OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been managed ...

Programmers gave Oracle's OpenOffice a good code-scrubbing to build the LibreOffice 3.3 offshoot. Expect more visible changes with 3.4 later this year. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

In continuation of our small LibreOffice series, we will be discussing the top five tips and tricks for Writer. As you may or may not know, LibreOffice Writer is the free and open-source alternative ...

LibreOffice is a popular productivity software and free alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite. It is widely used to create professional documents like brochures, newsletters, graphs, charts, ...

LibreOffice is a free and open source suite of office applications for creating, viewing, and editing text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents, among other things. Basically it’s an open source ...

Most free software accumulates myths. Most people only know about it second hand (if at all), but few are slowed by the fact that they don't know what they are talking about. As a large desktop ...

LibreOffice is releasing LibreOffice 25.2, a new major release of the free, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD, and ARM), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), and Linux. LibreOffice ...

OpenOffice was the first big, mainstream free software competitor to Microsoft Office, and because of that, it still has mainstream name recognition—which is a problem. Developers have almost all ...

Slackware has been one of my favorite GNU/Linux distributions for a very long time, especially since Version 8.0 came out, many moons back. The reason is that it embodies the "KISS" method of ...

There’s no shortage of text and document editors today, from apps made for tablets to online editors built for the cloud – but one of our top favorites is LibreOffice. What is LibreOffice? It’s a ...

Although I rely heavily on Google Docs, it's not the only office suite I use. There are many times throughout the day when I have to depend on a locally installed office suite to do specific things.