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Ubuntu to Default to LibreOffice

The community strains of SUSE and Red Hat will also be switching to the fork
By Maureen O'Gara
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January 31, 2011 05:45 AM EST
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The Document Foundation's Oracle-bucking LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice has got its first committed major distribution.

Canonical is going to go ahead and have the next rev of Ubuntu default to LibreOffice, not OpenOffice.

The community strains of SUSE and Red Hat will also be switching to the fork.

The Natty Narwhal release of Ubuntu is due April 28.

LibreOffice has just achieved its first stable release. The Document Foundation has been focused on cleaning up the code and making it independent of Oracle so LibreOffice 3.3 isn't much different from its mother yet. LibreOffice 3.4, due to beta in late March, should be more differentiated.

LibreOffice is available in 30 languages, all integrated in one common installer, and runs on Windows, Mac and other Linux distributions.

The next version of OpenOffice, 3.3, should be out in the next couple of months. Oracle's also got to get the newfangled Oracle Cloud Office out too.

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