LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice (basically, a bunch of open source developers raised two fingers to Oracle's acquisition of Sun (and thus OpenOffice), said 'it's open source still, lets not wait on Oracle, especially since they're now charging for some features..'))
And yes, it's a pretty decent MS Office replacement, unless folks are sending you a lot of complex .docx or .xlsx files... On 28 Apr 2011, at 11:24, Steve Tompkins-MacQueen wrote: > Is it a replacement? I'v read a bit but it all looks like muddy water to me. > What is the open souse replacement for MS-Office? > > Steve > > P.S. has any one seen a replacement for MS-Access or the best way of using > that in LINUX (wine or vmware or somthing)? > > On 7 Mar 2011, at 15:19:PM, Mark Rogers wrote: > >> Not sure if anyone has played with LibreOffice (replacement for OpenOffice) >> but I found the majority of the instructions out there for Ubuntu were >> wrong, at least for 64-bit installs. >> >> So in case it helps anyone, this worked for me: >> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-gnome >> >> (Should work on 32-Bit or 64-Bit, tested on 10.04 (Lucid)) >> >> -- >> Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 >> Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Peterboro mailing list >> Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
