Alternatives to LibreOffice

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What alternatives to LibreOffice (specially LO Writer) does Ubuntu come with. I have seen Abiword there but are there others?

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 12 '17 at 12:14

~~KOffice~~ Calligra Suite

The KOffice project was replaced by Calligra Suite, after some disputes. Calligra Suite is a fork of the 2010 codebase.

IBM Lotus Symphony

uses code from OpenOffice.org and includes enhancements such as new sidebars in its user interface.

Not in the repositories, but I think it is worth mentioning, you may give it a try and see what it brings new to OpenOffice.org besides the interface

Read more: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home

Other Useful Options

For calculations one could use gnumeric, octave and Python with numpy. A fairly good lightweight word processor, Abiword is available.

For document creation, Latex and Context are excellent systems, the learning curve is a little steep when it comes to Tex based document creation systems, but when one starts reaping the rewards of the power of these systems one will see it is a small price to pay.

For people just starting with Latex, an Interface like lyx may be used. There is no substitute for a good Latex editor though, texmaker is a fine one.

Scribus may also be considered, while it is a page layout program and not a word processor there is a story editor that have similar behaviour to a word processor and there are many instance where something like this is better for document creation than a word processor.

For drawing Xfig and Inkscape are quite good.

For database, sqliteman interface to the sqlite database system

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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Local one:

OpenOffice
AbiWord
Lotus

Network:

Google
Zoho

If to talk about free, of course, there's Microsoft one services.

edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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answered Jan 18 '12 at 00:07

Oleksa

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '12 at 20:52

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Calligra Suite is the actually developed fork of KOffice.

answered Jan 21 '12 at 20:52

prokoudine

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 31 '13 at 20:04

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As i know, IBM Lotus Symphony's release life cycle has ended. So i don't think it is a good option anymore. By the way it is also a fork, but fork of OpenOffice.

answered Mar 31 '13 at 20:04

Hilmi Erdem KEREN

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 01 '13 at 14:48

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There is also WPS Office, a Chinese Microsoft Office clone.

Note: I haven't tried it out myself yet, but you will find a number of testimonies in the comment section of the link above.

answered Apr 01 '13 at 14:48

Glutanimate

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 21 '12 at 22:21

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At the suggestion of @k0pernikus, I've put my comment into an answer:

Now worth an "answer" but if you have a google account, you can use Google Docs. I find myself using it quite often.

answered Jan 21 '12 at 22:21

bioShark

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