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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
Does it build upon Open Office, or is it completely separate (OK to delete that first)?
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The OpenOffice open source team got fed up with Oracle's heavy handed management, and forked off a totally free version so they could have more control of features and updates.
So Libre-Office has everything OpenOffice did plus a few minor updates.
Don't expect too much though; because, from what I have found, it still has many of the same issues that plagued OpenOffice (i.e. still crashes randomly too often, and some simple actions like loading or saving a badly formatted file in html format will crash it every time)
Some say it's faster, but on my Ubuntu box I didn't notice any change (if anything Libre-Office loads a second or two SLOWER).
Also, for a team that wasn't happy with Oracle and wanted to 'clean up the act', I have to say I am NOT IMPRESSED SO FAR, because when I installed LibreOffice from the official PPA it promptly DELETED my OpenOffice install without permission (they can run side by side), then also proceeded to SCREW-UP my common system files so bad that my Firefox couldn't spell check anymore until I went in and manually reinstalled aspell.
'At-A-Boy' "Libre-Office" team, way to go, if this represents your best effort then PLEASE give the project BACK TO ORACLE!