News - Document Foundation announces first stable release of LibreOffice

[HEXUS]

OpenOffice spin-off launched and gets the nod from Ubuntu devs.

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[jimbouk]

That's some good progress, will have to make the switch next time I blat my computer

[watercooled]

I noticed OpenOffice was starting to get very bloated (compared to Abiword/Gnumeric for example). Hopefully this is a bit more lightweight...

[crossy]

Apparently the devs weren't happy about the way that their new corporate masters were treating the community

Anyone surprised that they didn't appreciate being asked to have "Welcome" tattooed on their chests and lie down in Oracle's doorway?

the highlights included a hugely cleaned up code-base

If that equates to more speed and/or less resource hungry then they'll get a big thumbs up from me - and heck, maybe even some money.

As to it's use on Ubuntu, replacing OpenOffice, I welcome this. I installed rc4 on my 10.04LTS/64 box using the instructions shown on the last post of http://http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1658563, and although it seems to take slightly longer to start up the first time, it's actually quite zippy in use (so far). Maybe the initial run does some setup that subsequent runs don't have to?

Oh, and rc4 is supposedly "bit-for-bit identical" to the final release. I just checked (with top) the memory usage (cpu usage is relatively low) is 618, 93, 63 MB for virtual allocation, real memory and shared mem - so not that much sign of any downsizing of the footprint yet.