The LibreOffice suite has more momentum behind it than OpenOffice.org and also writes to the .docx format natively. Here’s how to switch out OpenOffice.org for a more regularly updated LibreOffice repository. More »
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, Linux Mint or Debian system, it’s not too hard. More »
Windows/Mac/Linux: The latest version of OpenOffice.org, the free and open-source office suite, improves startup times by over 40 per cent (by some tests), improves importing and support for password-protected and 2007 office files, and improves many areas of the Calc spreadsheet. More »
Windows/Mac/Linux: It hit the servers two days ago, but OpenOffice.org 3.1 is now in official release. The open-source office suite focused on anti-aliased drawing and usability tweaks for this release, which we’ve quickly previewed below. More »
It’s not official, but OpenOffice.org 3.1, a bug-fixing and feature-adding release of the open-source office suite, can now be found and downloaded. More »
If you want to try out the new release of open-source office application OpenOffice 3 without having to install it, you can check it out in your browser thanks to Ulteo Onine Desktop. Sign up for free to access a full-feature version of the software in your browser, and try it out for up to 25 minutes a session (paid accounts start at $US6.50 a month). ArsTechnica has an updated review of OpenOffice 3 via Ulteo, and say the new version running is a tad snappier than the previous one.
