Open Office 3: Beta with more Extensions
Jul 14, 2008The Open Office project has just released version 3 of the free office package.
more »Web-based Office Tools Online office suites
Jul 11, 2008A mobile office without a laptop? No problem – a new generation of web applications converts your browser into a word processor or spreadsheet.
more »Office Suites A tour of OpenOffice alternatives
Jul 11, 2008If OpenOffice is too fat and feature-rich for your taste, try one of the office alternatives. We found much to like and much to wish for when we put six office suites to the test.
more »ODF Compatibility Open Document Format in practice
Jul 11, 2008What happens when you feed an ODT document created with OpenOffice to a word processor like AbiWord, KWord, or Writely? Read on to find out.
more »ODF Add-in The Open Document Add-in for Microsoft Office
Jul 11, 2008With a little help from the ODF plugin, Microsoft Office can open up documents saved in the free Open Document format. A short test reveals just how well it works.
more »Graphviz Graph visualization with Graphviz
Jul 10, 2008Using drawing tools to manually create graphs and diagrams can be a slow and convoluted process. The Graphviz toolbox offers a faster way. Based on a short text with the information for the graph, Graphviz quickly generates a neat drawing.
more »Cabaret Stage Editing PDF documents with Cabaret Stage
Jul 09, 2008Linux has had the ability to display PDF documents for many years, but it lacked an editing tool until now: enter Cabaret Stage.
more »TeXmacs TeXmacs – A convenient layout program for your text documents
Jul 09, 2008If you need to lay out a text document, you can opt for a WYSIWYG application, like OpenOffice, or a genuine layout system such as TeX. TeXmacs combines the advantages of both approaches: premium document quality and intuitive controls.
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Kali Linux 2019.1 Released
The favorite Linux distro of Mr. Robot gets the first update of 2019.
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Linux Foundation Releases a New Draft of OpenChain Spec
OpenChain provides a standard for open source compliance throughout the software supply chain.
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Linux Kernel Continues To Offer Mitigation for Spectre Mitigation
Kernel 4.19 has added another family of Spectre vulnerabilities to its list of mitigating the mitigation.
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SpeakUp Trojan Targets Linux Servers
It’s exploiting a known vulnerability.
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KDE Plasma 5.15 Beta Arrives
Major improvements to software management.
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Canonical Announces Latest Ubuntu Core for IoT
Now offers 10 years of support.
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GitHub Offers Free Private Repositories
Popular source code collaboration site makes a major change to feature set.
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Linus Torvalds Welcomes 2019 with Linux 5.x
Better support for GPUs and CPUs.
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Keep your edge with these powerful Linux administration tools:
Keep All Your Linux Servers in Check
Watching the Bad Guys with Cowrie
Become a certified Linux Admin professional with the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 Systems Administrator certification.
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Microsoft Gets an Open Source Web Browser
The company will use Google Chromium web browser as the foundation for its next browser.