OpenOffice.org – MS Office Alternative

OpenOffice.org 2 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

OpenOffice.org is very easy to learn and can be downloaded and used entirely free of any license fee. Even you may make copies and distribute to anyone.

You can download the software for free from here: http://download.openoffice.org/

OpenOffice.org has released the beta version for its release 3.0. It can be downloaded from the location: http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/

The feature of version 3.0 is listed in this link: http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html

Please note that the Beta version is for testing and not for the production use. For the most recent stable version go to this page: http://download.openoffice.org/

Fedora 9 Released!!!

The Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora 9, codenamed “Sulphur” to the public today. You can download the ISO from the below links:

• Mirrors
• Torrents
• Custom Spins

You can request for a Free Fedora Installation Media from the below link:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia

Fedora 9 (Codename: Sulphur) – Release Date

Fedora 9 (Codename: Sulphur) will be release on 13 May 2008.

The key features are Firefox 3, KDE 4.0, enhanced bluetooth support, improved support for multiple timezone, ext4 file system support, built in encrypted file system support and so on. You can see the complete feature in this link.The release schedule is also hosted online.