---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Danial Jose" <[email protected]> Date: Feb 3, 2014 10:32 AM Subject: [ILUG-Cochin.org] LibreOffice 4.2 better bridges the gap with Microsoft Office To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software" < [email protected]> Cc:
*Hi all,* *The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 4.2* today, which "features a large number of performance and interoperability improvements targeted to users of all kinds, but particularly appealing for power and enterprise users" *Following are the list of most crucial changes in the latest LibreOffice 4.2. * 1. Round-trip interoperability with Microsoft OOXML, especially for DOCX and RTF, has enhanced noticeably. 2. A new import filter added to Abiword documents and enhancement to other import/export filters. 3. Added a new engine for Calc for doing extensive parallel calculation of formula cells using GPU via OpenCL. 4. Added new Expert configuration window to Options tab. 5. GNOME3 Application Menu integration and support for MATE and XFCE Desktops. 6. Included brand new set of icons named Sifr. LibreOffice *4.2* Requirements 1. Kernel 2.6 or higher version 2. glibc 2.5 or higher version 3. gtk version 2.10 or higher 4. Minimum 256MB and recommended 512MB RAM 5. 1.55GB available Hard disk space 6. Desktop (Gnome or KDE) http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/libreoffice-42-released-with-new.html Cheers, Danial José _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected] _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
