http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:56:48 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/25491/Bill_Joy_s_Greatest_Gift_to_Man_the_vi_Editor/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25491/Bill_Joy_s_Greatest_Gift_to_Man_the_vi_Editor/ In an enlightening article about the origin of the venerable vi text editor, Bill Joy reminds us that its quirks and qualities are all about the computing reality back in the 1970s: "you've got to remember that I was trying to make it usable over a 300 baud modem. That's also the reason you have all these funny commands. It just barely worked to use a screen editor over a modem. It was just barely fast enough. A 1200 baud modem was an upgrade." Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:46:09 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) Features, Office 11 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News http://www.osnews.com/story/25238/LibreOffice_Coming_to_iOS_Android_Web_Browsers/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25238/LibreOffice_Coming_to_iOS_Android_Web_Browsers/ "The LibreOffice media team has passed along some new information about what was revealed at this week's LibreOffice conference. At the Paris conference, experimental versions of LibreOffice for iOS, Android, and for web-browsers were revealed." Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:12:05 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Features, Office 40 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News judgen http://www.osnews.com/story/25045/LibreOffice_3_4_2_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/25045/LibreOffice_3_4_2_Released/ The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced the release of version 3.4.2 of the open source LibreOffice office suite. According to TDF Steering Committee member Italo Vignoli, the third release in the 3.4.x branch of LibreOffice is now ready for both individuals and enterprises, and can be used for production. Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:12:41 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Features, Office 62 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/24877/Calligra_Office_Announces_Second_Snapshot_Release/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24877/Calligra_Office_Announces_Second_Snapshot_Release/ The Calligra Office Suite has announced its second snapshot release. The project, which is a fork of KOffice, is building a suite of productivity and creativity applications and is working towards its first formal end-user release due in October. The project is seeking feedback from end users particularly in the area of usability of the GUI. With this snapshot Calligra Office Words is claiming better compatibility with .docx than LibreOffice, and also claims to be approaching the best compatibility with legacy .doc formats. Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:30:47 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Features, Office 88 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/24649/Rock_Paper_Community_Oracle_Gives_up_on_OpenOffice/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24649/Rock_Paper_Community_Oracle_Gives_up_on_OpenOffice/ Over the weekend, Oracle basically announced its defeat in the competition with the community-created fork of OpenOffice, LibreOffice. Oracle will cease all commercial development of OpenOffice, and will turn it into a purely community-based project. Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:27:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Features, Office 117 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24307/The_Document_Foundation_Launches_LibreOffice_3_3/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24307/The_Document_Foundation_Launches_LibreOffice_3_3/ "The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010, to well over one hundred today. This has allowed us to release ahead of the aggressive schedule set by the project." Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc Camen) Features, Office 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News http://www.osnews.com/story/24112/LibreOffice_Development_Joined_by_BrOffice/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24112/LibreOffice_Development_Joined_by_BrOffice/ The Document Foundation has announced that the software development project recently announced by BrOffice will contribute to the development of LibreOffice and other free software projects. BrOffice has 15 million users in Brazil. Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:03:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Features, Office 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/24040/LibreOffice_It_Is_Wrong_to_Blame_Oracle_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/24040/LibreOffice_It_Is_Wrong_to_Blame_Oracle_/ In a recent interview with derStandard.at Novell developer Michael Meeks talks about the reasoning behind the fork from OpenOffice.org, the first few weeks of the new project, and plans for the future. Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:46:49 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Features, Office 8 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News suka http://www.osnews.com/story/23979/33_Developers_Leave_OpenOffice_org/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23979/33_Developers_Leave_OpenOffice_org/ "We all knew that it would come to this and it has finally happened - 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Documents Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days. After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org fell into the hands of Oracle, as did a lot of other products. So, last month a few very prominent members of the OpenOffice.org community decided to form The Documents Foundation and fork OpenOffice.org as LibreOffice, possibly fearing that it could go the OpenSolaris way." Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:46:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Features, Office 29 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News Debjit http://www.osnews.com/story/23911/Oracle_Wants_LibreOffice_Members_to_Leave_OOo_Council/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23911/Oracle_Wants_LibreOffice_Members_to_Leave_OOo_Council/ "A group of key OpenOffice.org contributors and community members recently decided to fork the project and establish The Document Foundation in order to drive forward community-driven development of the open source office suite. Oracle has responded to the move by asking several members of TDF to step down from their positions as representatives on the OOo community council." Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:56:14 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Features, Office 47 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/23875/One_Week_of_LibreOffice_The_Numbers/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23875/One_Week_of_LibreOffice_The_Numbers/ In an e-mail to their announce mailing list, the The Document Foundation have shared details of their first week of public operation: "One full week has gone by since the announcement of The Document Foundation, and we would like to share some numbers with the people who have decided to follow us since the first day." Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:22:43 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kroc Camen) Features, Office 55 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News http://www.osnews.com/story/23843/OpenOffice_Forked_Into_LibreOffice/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23843/OpenOffice_Forked_Into_LibreOffice/ LibreOffice is the provisional name of a community-led fork of OpenOffice that is to be developed under the umbrella of a European based non-profit to be named The Document Foundation. This should break OpenOffice free from the shackles of Sun/Oracle, hopefully leading to a faster and more inclusive development cycle. Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:23:18 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Features, Office 69 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News lemur2 http://www.osnews.com/story/23715/Vim_7_3_Released/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23715/Vim_7_3_Released/ "This is a minor release of Vim. It consists of Vim 7.2 plus all patches, updated runtime files and some more, see below. It has been two years since the 7.2 release, thus it's not that 'minor'. But not 'major' either. Something in between, don't know how to call that." Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Features, Office 14 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News poundsmack http://www.osnews.com/story/23020/Abusing_Slow_News_Days_Common_Mistakes_in_English/ http://www.osnews.com/story/23020/Abusing_Slow_News_Days_Common_Mistakes_in_English/ Since everybody in the technology world is apparently having a vacation, and nobody told me about it, we're kind of low on news. As such, this seems like the perfect opportunity to gripe about something I've always wanted to gripe about: a number of common mistakes in English writing in the comments section. I'll also throw in some tidbits about my native language, Dutch, so you can compare and contrast between the two. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:05:28 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Features, Office 143 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/22868/OpenOffice_3_2_Released_More_stability_More_speed/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22868/OpenOffice_3_2_Released_More_stability_More_speed/ OpenOffice 3.2 has been released featuring faster load times and a host of new features. The OpenOffice team have made version 3.2 of the open source office suite for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Solaris available to download. It offers numerous enhancements over its predecessor which offer both stability and speed benefits. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:27:16 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Features, Office 82 http://www.osnews.com/topics/3 News lemur2