Windows 10: New LibreOffice 6.1 released

New Libreoffice fresh release 6.1

Download: Download LibreOffice | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Fun Project - Fantastic People

Full release notes: LibreOffice 6.1: Release Notes - The Document Foundation Wiki


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LibreOffice 4.2.0 Beta 2


LibreOffice is now up to version 4.4.4.3. Works great for me in Windows 10 Pro x64.
They seem to come out with an updated version quarterly.

For me, who is semi-retired, it's a perfect program suite for home use. I don't need the horsepower of the MS Office suite. LibreOffice is able to read and write MS Office format files. Best of all, it's free.

Here is a tweak (found on a blog site) to speed up LibreOffice, especially if you work with large document or spreadsheet files. This will remove any lag the program seems to have when accessing and editing those large files.

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This is a tweak for LibreOffice memory settings.

To access this memory option, from the LibreOffice Menu Bar, Click TOOLS-> OPTIONS-> MEMORY.

Change the default settings in the drop down boxes to those listed below.

Also check the box to allow LibreOffice to load when Windows starts.

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Undo
-Number of Steps - 100

Graphics cache
-Use for LibreOffice - 200 MB
-Memory per object - 10.0 MB
-Remove from Memory after - 00:10 hh:mm

Cache for inserted objects
-Number of objects - 50

LibreOffice Quickstarter
(X) Enable systray Quickstarter

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Click OK, exit LibreOffice and re-start your computer.

LibreOffice is now optimized to handle larger files. Any lag it had before now goes away.

 

OpenOffice vs LibreOffice

Oracle held onto OpenOffice while virtually every developer switched sides and went on to work on LibreOffice (note that Oracle did not announce any further plans about OpenOffice during this period, other that their refusal to let the new community use the name "OpenOffice"). Only when it became painfully clear they'll never be able to monetize it, they offloaded it to Apache*.

For years, I haven't have to choose between OpenOffice or LibreOffice (horrible name, btw), but rather I had to come up with reasons to fire up LibreOffice when Google Docs works so well.

*Oracle also offloaded Netbeans to Apache and after many years we now have a new Java release with no support from Netbeans (Java9 features are supported, but there's no Netbeans release that runs on top of Java9). That's just to show well these transitions work.

 

OpenOffice vs LibreOffice

This. Oracle bought OpenOffice, all the developers jumped ship creating LibreOffice. Now Apache has OpenOffice but little in the way of development. OpenOffice might as well be dead.

"Libre" is French for "free." *cough*Free from Oracle.*cough*