On 2011-06-28, Tom Davies wrote: > tracey002 <wp...@gte.net> wrote: > >> Is Libre Office the same/identical application as Open Office or are they >> separate projects? >> The names and icons of the applications look identical. >> >> If not, can you briefly explain the difference. > > LibreOffice is more highly developed, it is developing faster and has a more > certain future. Substantial clean-up of the code has made it about 30% > smaller > so it's faster to download and since it is more streamlined, hopefully it > runs a > bit faster.
LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org separate projects. Please note that some GNU/Linux distros distributed (distribute?) OpenOffice.org with the Go-oo patches. Even if branded OpenOffice.org, this is closer to LibreOffice than to OpenOffice.org. -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
