LibreOffice

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search LibreOffice Start Center in LibreOffice 4.0.1 Original author(s) StarDivision Developer(s) The Document Foundation Initial release 25 January 2011 (2011-01-25) Stable release 4.0.4 (19 June 2013; 8 days ago (2013-06-19)) Preview release 4.1.0 RC1 (22 June 2013; 5 days ago (2013-06-22)) Written in C++, Java, and Python Operating system Cross-platform Linux Windows OS X BSD (ports are community supported) Platform IA-32, x86-64, PowerPC (project); ARMel, ARMhf, MIPS, MIPSel, Sparc, S390, S390x, IA-64 (additional Debian platforms) Available in 114 languages Type Office suite License LGPLv3 Website www.libreoffice.org

LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, developed by The Document Foundation. It was forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010.

The LibreOffice suite comprises programs to do word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams, maintain databases, and compose math formulae.

It is designed to be compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office, though some Microsoft Office layout features and formatting attributes are handled differently or are unsupported. LibreOffice is available in over 30 languages and for a variety of computing platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or newer, and Linux It is the default office suite of most popular Linux distributions. Ports for FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are being maintained by contributors to those projects, respectively.

Between January 2011 (the first stable release) and October 2011, LibreOffice was downloaded approximately 7.5 million times.