Daily Archives: Monday, November 23, 2015

LibreOffice wins two awards

23/11/2015 Steve WoodsOpen Source, Open Standards, Tech
PortalProgramas.com has announced that LibreOffice, the leading open source office productivity suite, has won 2 prizes in its 2015 awards for free software applications.

The 2 categories in which LibreOffice won were:
1. Esencial para empresas (essential for companies), because it covers all enterprise office automation needs without adding licensing costs;
2. Mayor potencial de crecimiento (best growth potential); this was awarded because LibreOffice is regularly updated and is open to new features and applications.
Other winners included GNU Health (most revolutionary), WordPress (essential for communication) and CyanogenMod (best for mobile).

Congratulations to LibreOffice, The Document Foundation and all the other winners.
A World Without Linux – episode 4

23/11/2015 Steve WoodsLinux, Media, Open Source, Tech

The Linux Foundation has released episode 4 of its A World Without Linux video series.

Called “Avatar Reimagined”, this latest video sees characters Sam and Annie going to the pictures (as we used to call them when I was a lad. Ed.) to watch a film with really bad special effects to make the point that the effects in many blockbuster movies are made on Linux supercomputers.

The Linux Foundation commissioned six episodes for the series, leaving one left before the final episode featuring Mr Linux Kernel himself, Linus Torvalds.