![]() And every change that happens is documented on LibreOffice's wiki. You can ask whatever you want at, /r/libreoffice or even in one of the mailing lists and (usually) get a quick answer. LibreOffice has a larger community and better documentation. I can't remember, in the last three years, any organisation / goverment with validity adopting Apache OpenOffice (correct me if I'm wrong). ![]() Many govermental institutions use it (such as the city of Munich, which is also a contributor). LibreOffice is preferred by more organisations. Calc can use the GPU for calculations, the whole suite does not load 14,000 lines on every startup, the import of ODS and XLSX files is quicker and many many more. xlsx, pptx, which IIRC OpenOffice only imports.īecause of the Coverity fixes, the constant refactoring, the various contributors, LibreOffice has many performance improvements. LibreOffice has improved significantly the import of Microsoft Office documents. LibreOffice has started since 2010 a constant refactoring of the code, some of which dates to the nineties, allowing the project to add more features easily and overcome technical barriers. On the contrary, OpenOffice has a Coverity score of 94 bugs / 100,000 lines of code (~10,500 unfixed bugs). Fixing these bugs reduces unexpected behaviors (therefore improving stability) while the program is running. LibreOffice has corrected all the defects found by Coverity, an automatic "bug finder". OpenOffice has only a meager number of IBM developers (I'm not sure if they still continue contributing). (adding security to the project, because if one company stops development, others will continue support). LibreOffice is also developed by developers from a large number of commercial companies, such as Red Hat, Collabora, Canonical etc. LibreOffice commit log, OpenOffice commit log. LibreOffice has much more contributions than OpenOffice. This means that all improvements made in OpenOffice are available in LibreOffice but improvements made in LibreOffice are not available in OpenOffice. LibreOffice can reuse code from OpenOffice, while the opposite can't happen. Most of the existing OOo developers jumped ship to LibreOffice, considering it the true continuation of OOo instead of Oracle OpenOffice, which was later donated to the Apache Foundation, becoming Apache OpenOffice. When Oracle bought Sun and threatened the existence of the office suite, a community fork was created called LibreOffice. Historical note: Until 2010 there was only one suite, (OOo) developed by Sun. In the end the best decision is to give the user options, those who fervently support open source software will use LibreOffice, while those who want to have software privative, but more stable in theory they can choose FreeOffice. ![]() Manjaro is more focused on its regular users being able to perform their tasks without going into much detail. There are few distributions that are determined to include only open source software, Manjaro it is not one of them. This feature was added as part of the agreement with Manjaro. On the other hand, Softmaker has reported that users can now save files in specific Microsoft Office formats such as DOC, XLS, PPT and ODT. Manjaro has clarified that there was no money exchange in the decision to include FreeOffice as the default office suite on your system. ![]() Both versions are available for Linux, but you need to pay to use the Premium. It is a limited version of the premium office suite from Softmaker, famous for being fully compatible with Microsoft Office. įreeOffice it is a free suite but it does not have open source. As of the next release, users will be able to choose whether to install FreeOffice or LibreOffice from the installer Manjaro. Manjaro I listen to your community and modify the decision to include FreeOffice as the office suite by default. This decision brought with it a lot of criticism from those who prefer to use open source software. In July, Manjaro Linux decided to ditch the popular LibreOffice office suite in favor of FreeOffice de Softmaker. ![]()
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