Download and Test LibreOffice 3.5.0 Beta 1

[Ohio Joe]

The Document Foundation proudly announced a few minutes the immediate availability for download and testing of the first Beta release of the upcoming LibreOffice 3.5 open source office suite.

In the press release received by Softpedia today, December 21st, The Document Foundation also announces the first LibreOffice 3.5 bug hunting session, which will be held in a virtual environment between December 28th and December 29th, 2011.

Details about how to join the LibreOffice 3.5 bug hunting session are available on the The Document Foundation's Wiki.

LibreOffice 3.5 will be the best free office suite ever, as The Document Foundation says in the press release, and it will be released on February 8th, 2012.


http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-and-Test-LibreOffice-3-5-0-Beta-1-242124.shtml

[Angry Dragon]

1. How does it compare to OpenOffice??

I may not be saying this correctly but when looking at the softpedia
page it has the OpenOffice Symbols.

[Ohio Joe]

2. No clue, I'm still downloading it

It is a beta though so it might be best to wait for the full release.

[Old and In the Way]

3. It was essentially the same as OO....not sure how this release will be.

IIRC, Oracle decided to wall off their development of OO and keep the name, so the open source community renamed their version to Libre and now they will develop seperately.

[BadgerKid]

4. IME

To me, LibreOffice feels a little more polished and a little more intuitive in the features I need. For example, manipulating slides in layout format works, whereas it didn't in last version of OO that I was using. You can still get lost in trying to figure out the menu hierarchy though.

[marksold]

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[sumi12]

5. Download and Test LibreOffice 3.5.0 Beta 1

ya LibraOffice is great to work, i like it.

[PowerToThePeople]

7. Just replaced OoO w/ Libre today

On my desktop and netbook. Had to use backport on desktop and ppa on netbook. Good to make the break. While I was at it I replaced sun-java with OpenJDK-6-jre.

I had been wanting to do this for a while, this thread inspired me too complete it...

[Deuteros]

8. Resume

My only issue with LibreOffice so far has been file compatibility with MS Word. I realize that MS has a long history of controlling protocols, file systems and making their own standards to thwart the adoption of competing open source products and technology’s but I don't have the luxury of sending my resume in a format other than that specified from prospective employers. MS does not include the open source plug in for ODT files in their product and their support for ODT I would categorize as "hostile". Being an IT guy over 40, and an American I have two strikes against me already and don't need to "rock the boat" when it comes to employment. With the current high unemployment of technical workers in the US everything I do needs to be "perfect" or my chances of employment as an engineer are slim and none. So Unfortunately, although I prefer LibreOffice to Word, I had to buy Word to check the formatting. My normal procedure for creating a document is to write it in LibreOffice save as a "doc" file load Word and check the formatting. I usually only have to change some minor spacing issues, then save from Word.

I'm currently using LibreOffice 3.4.2

[abbi10]

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