A special gift this 62nd Republic Day 26 Jan 2011 for all those who value their 'Freedom' - the release of 'LibreOffice 3.3' - a solid replacement for MS-Office Suites and OpenOffice (bought over by Oracle) on 25 Jan 2011.Check out: http://bit.ly/eNnh09
Though MS-Office is indeed a great software with loads of features, it is mired in licensing requirements and proprietary formats! More so when such a great 'can do nearly all our office work' suite like 'LibreOffice' is available for free, why bother with MS-Office? Moreover, MS-Office is not available for Linux (you can install MS-Office using Windows emulators like Crossover etc! but why bother?)
Just try out LibreOffice - and checkout what you can do with it. ITs FREE after all!!! And yess, LibreOffice can open all your doc, ppt etc formats of MS-Office - so no sweat there.
Download LibreOffice for Windows/Mac/Linux from: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
For Linux users those who are using Ubuntu or Mint, its pretty easy to install. Follow this steps:-
(a) Start a terminal window and issue these commands (you’ll be asked for your password):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install libreoffice(b) To complete the integration to Ubuntu (Gnome) or Kubuntu (KDE), you will also need to either
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome
or
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-kde
Thats it - as easy as that !!
If you are adventurous enough and want to add on more features, get the 'extensions' for LibreOffice available from the OpenOffice extensions repository at : http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List
Enjoy!!
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