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Libreoffice ubuntu8/13/2023 You can blame me for running unsupported versions of windows, which is fair, but then you have to give up the argument that windows is a stable platform. I find it very frustrating how much breaks in my windows VMs and old laptops. Meanwhile, Steam is slowly evolving into the default package manager for Desktop Linux, and Wine is slowly evolving into the default stable API for Desktop Linux. Also it sure seems rich to complain about flame wars when you’ve been pouring fuel on that fire. Obviously opinions are mixed about which tradeoffs are worth making, but we should recognize that letting all applications bundle their own resources does come with cons.įlatpak and snap are there to distribute apps like android/ios do. When left to 3rd party developers, it’s quite likely some resources will be wildly out of date. This isn’t a limitation of linux itself, it just has to do with the fact that without coordination 3rd party developers will not be in sync…different library versions, different security patches, etc. For better or worse, the distro manager is the only entity that can really coordinate things. It’s fine if you want self contained packages, we can use them today, but it means we need to tolerate less efficient use of resources. Well, the thing is people complain about both ends of the spectrum (including you). Can you imagine if Desktop Linux achieves mainstream success that way, with a proprietary DRM client as the default package manager and the Win32 API as its stable API? Richard Stallman’s beard and Eric S Raymond’s mustache would both spontaneously combust. And also start an eternal format war in the time inbetween (deb vs rpm). And even in Unix, we’d put stuff in /opt/app_name and consider it a self-contained package, there would be no pesky dependencies and dependency hell.īut you can always rely on the communitah to create a problem and then create a highly complex solution for it (Flatpak, Snap etc). That’s how it is in Android and MacOS for example. Generally, the idea that the OS vendor should “maintain packages” is absurd. I’m no fan of Flatpak for a multitude of reasons, but at the same time, I can’t blame Red Hat and other distribution makers for not wanting to maintain a complex set of packages such as LibreOffice. This does give me pause regarding my current use of Fedora on two of my three machines, as I do not wish to rely on Flatpak for anything serious. As part of that, the engineers doing that work will contribute some fixes upstream to ensure LibreOffice works better as a Flatpak, which we expect to be the way that most people consume LibreOffice in the long term. We will continue to maintain LibreOffice in currently supported versions of RHEL (RHEL 7, 8 and 9) with needed CVEs and similar for the lifetime of those releases (as published on the Red Hat website). This also limits our ability to maintain it in future versions of Fedora. LibreOffice is pre-installed and available from the Ubuntu repos but unless you run daily builds you won’t have this version - but you can get it now from the LibreOffice website, or from Flathub or the LibreOffice PPA in the coming days.The tradeoff is that we are pivoting away from work we had been doing on desktop applications and will cease shipping LibreOffice as part of RHEL starting in a future RHEL version. You can grab the latest release from the LibreOffice website. LibreOffice 7.5 is free, open source software available to download for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Impress and Draw pick up new default table styles (plus support for creating custom styles) lets you drag and drop objects in the navigator, and makes it possible run the ‘presenter console’ as a normal window rather than fullscreen – nice.įor more details on these and other changes see the official LibreOffice 7.5 release notes. PDF export picks up a wide range of fixes, plus options to embed colour emoji and fonts using colour layers or colour bitmaps embedding variable fonts with font variations applied to glyph shapes and you can choose to export comments in the page margin.Įlsewhere, Writer makes bookmarks more visible supports marking page objects as decorative adds a new accessibility checker buffs its spell checker and offers machine translation of text using DeepL translate APIs (this is disabled by default and requires an API key).Ĭalc supports data tables in charts makes conditional formatting case insensitive and adds “spell out” number formats.
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