That is not typical for other office suites. And new files created in LibreOffice had no distortions when loaded into OpenOffice. Even the suite components share the same name.įor example, existing files created with OpenOffice Writer, Calc and Impress looked the same in LibreOffice Writer, Calc and Impress. In my first few work sessions with LibreOffice Writer and Impress, I kept looking at the window title to make sure I was not still using the OpenOffice counterparts.
Once installed, even the icons for the suite components look remarkably similar. The shared roots between developers of OpenOffice and LibreOffice is almost instantly obvious. Its rapid release of a first stable version late last month seems to put LibreOffice on the fast track. Meanwhile, LibreOffice has traveled considerable distance in a relatively short time period. But its downgrade in status from favored app to has-been could impact future revision development. Presumably, the OpenOffice suite will still be available in the distro repositories. Canonical, the developers of Ubuntu, announced last month that starting with the next version release, the LibreOffice suite will replace the OpenOffice suite. Fork in the FOSS RoadwayĪ recent split in ideology lead to a break-away action by The Document Foundation to go in a direction different from the developers. But you can download LibreOffice in many Linux varieties if you want to do a manual installation.
It is not yet available in distro repositories. I am already hearing rumblings among other distro makers that LibreOffice will be a better choice. And in a few more words: The developers of Ubuntu Linux are making that initial decision for you. So why make the change if the look and feel is nearly identical? In a word: progress.
Yet it provides the potential for more bells and whistles and needs no learning curve to maintain productivity. LibreOffice is a near clone of the OpenOffice modules.
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