LibreOffice Description from Publisher (LibreOffice)
LibreOffice is the power-packed free, libre and open source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and GNU/Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. You, too, can get involved!







I’m always surprised how infatuated idiots are able to talk nonsense in such a pompous and pseudo-technical way. Hilbert’s logorrhoea is a pathetic example for this ridiculous tendency: take a word-processor and blame it for not being able to work with a 505 page PDF file as quickly as a specialized PDF reader (Foxit)! Take a plough and blame it for being slower than a Maserati (well, try to use a Maserati in a corn field). I happen to use OpenOffice and now LibreOffice to write books (12 by now), with tons of footnotes, indexes, technical formulae, … and I feel quite happy with the result (and so the readers). LibreOffice IS an office suite, not less, not more, and it does make the job beautifully AND it’s free. Many thanks to the community of developpers for this great piece of software. Sorry for my English, this is not my mother tongue.
I’ve been using LibreOffice (and its predecessor) for several years and find if a worthy contender for the Office Suite Prize for home and small business users.
I actually used LibreOffice exclusively at my workplace and at home over the last two years without a hitch. I finally decided to to fly without a net and removed MSOffice completely at work.
For the home user, there is no reason to pay hundreds of dollars for an Office Suite when an easier to use Suite is available.