LibreOffice is a private, free and open source office suite – the successor project to OpenOffice.
It's compatible with Microsoft Office/365 files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) and is backed by a non-profit organisation.
Today we’re talking to Karl-Heinz Gruner, who has been supporting the LibreOffice community at events in Germany and recently became a member of The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind the suite: Tell us a bit about yourself! I live in Middle Franconia, near Nuremberg. In my spare time, I enjoy
The question arises naturally for anyone who chooses the standard format over the proprietary one: why do office suites that use OOXML as their native format handle ODF in ways that range from poor to appalling? The two most obvious answers are these: vendors have neglected the format, treating it
Today we’re talking to Karl-Heinz Gruner, who has been supporting the LibreOffice community at events in Germany and recently became a member of The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind the suite: Tell us a bit about yourself! I live in Middle Franconia, near Nuremberg. In my spare time, I enjoy
FBSimCity, the explorable isometric city of Firebird internals, is at v0.6.0 with a new replication district. Replication without a log Firebird has no write-ahead log to ship, so its replication is logical — and it has to be. As each transaction commits, the changes themselves are written into a replication journal segment. When a segment fills it is sealed and queued for the replicator,
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