FOSDEM is the biggest free and open source software (FOSS) event in Europe, and will take place on 31 January and 1 February in Brussels, Belgium. And the #LibreOffice project and community will be there! Meet us and grab cool merchandise: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/22/meet-the-libreoffice-community-at-fosdem-2026/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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Easily Add Page Numbers In LibreOffice Writer
Learn how to add or insert page numbers in a document using LibreOffice Writer along with what are page numbers, what is a header/footer and more.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/libreoffice-writer-add-page-number/
Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for #LibreOffice and #Linux https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/ by @sjvn
Europe doesn't trust the US government or its tech powers, so its countries are looking elsewhere.
More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Our Summer Clearance Sale is happening now! Save 50% on select @adminmagazine and Linux Magazine back issues and products. Use the links at the top of the page to get to the shop system for your region/currency.
https://shop.linuxnewmedia.com/shop/category/summer-clearance-79
#Linux #sale #LibreOffice #RaspberryPi #OpenSource #security #hacks #FOSS
Have you checked out our Summer Clearance Sale yet? Select back issues and products are 50% off through July 31st! Get 2024 and older issues of Linux Magazine, @adminmagazine, Special Issues, and select products. Follow the link for the shop for your region/currency.
https://shop.linuxnewmedia.com/shop/category/summer-clearance-79
#Linux #OpenSource #security #FOSS #LibreOffice #hacks #RaspberryPi
Edited 1y ago
I've had this image buzzing in my head for weeks. I'm by no means a graphic designer, but I got impatient and sketched it up myself with #LibreOffice Draw.
It's for a #fiction I #amWriting, about a professional troll who lost his job to AI, shortly after helping the Ideology come to power through the use of psychological manipulation. Chaos ensues as the world tumbles toward a near-future #cyberpunk #dystopia.
(P.S. I am in the market for a #graphicdesign pro for this project)
How to Change LibreOffice Spelling Mistakes Underline Colour
Learn the necessary steps to change or customize spelling mistakes underline colour in LibreOffice applications using this complete guide.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/libreoffice-change-spelling-mistake-underline-colour/
🇦🇹 Austria's Armed Forces have replaced MS Office with LibreOffice on 16,000+ workstations 📄
This shift began in 2020 to avoid mandatory cloud reliance ☁️
Their goal? Digital sovereignty—not cost saving 🔒
They even contributed 5+ person-years of code 🛠️
EU trend toward open-source grows 🇪🇺
🔗 https://news.itsfoss.com/austrian-forces-ditch-microsoft-office/
#TechNews #LibreOffice #Linux #OpenSource #Privacy #FOSS #Security #Europe #EU #Microsoft #Cloud #DigitalSovereignty #Government #Defense #Innovation #Technology
Edited 350d ago
Markdown support is coming to #LibreOffice! And a new dialog to edit table styles, Python and BASIC code auto-completion, Rust UNO language bindings, and more - all thanks to participants in the Google Summer of Code: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/22/libreoffice-and-google-summer-of-code-2025-the-results/ #foss #OpenSource
This #LibreOffice bug, where trying to create or open a password-protected file crashes the application, is what kept me from running #FreeBSD on my laptop (before that hardware died last month). I was able to keep running #OpenBSD (where LibreOffice doesn't crash) until the laptop gave up and wouldn't run at all. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289266
Edited 217d ago
Great video by
@reject_convenience
https://makertube.net/w/5x3Wt1EQqCbbfFKTmCvj3S
https://makertube.net/c/rejectconvenie[email protected]/videos
#peertubers #PeerTube #Privacy #Proton #ProtonMail #digitalsovereignty #Opensource #NonProfit #Signal #LibreOffice #Blender #Blender3d
Edited 114d ago
#LibreOffice 26.8 is here – with tabbed UI improvements, draft mode in Writer, and better scripting support. (And no built-in AI, of course.) Learn more about the latest update to the private office suite: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/
#digitalsovereignty #libreoffice #odf
I wish #ProtonMail would sync files to its Proton Drive on Linux distros, same as I used to in my Windows. It's a good alternative for OneDrive, and it's free. I only need 5GB max.
I've been reading about #NextCloud but I don't want to pay something like £10 a month.
#Proton_mail #ProtonDrive #sync #Linux #linux_distro #FOSS #SovereignCloud #Libreoffice
We're getting very close to #LibreOffice 26.8, our next major release! The first release candidate is now available, for testing: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/07/22/libreoffice-26-8-rc1-is-available-for-testing/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
#Protest text/graphic for tshirts, posters, etc
I came up with the design using the #LibreOffice Writer word processor and sent it to a vendor on Etsy to make a 2-sided #tshirt. (Anyone interested in getting this shirt can go to https://www.etsy.com/listing/1690766536/personalized-text-design-shirt-custom and ask for a "Tax The Rich" tshirt based on order #4008923866. Specify front or front and back.)
Here is a link to a PNG file on WikiMedia Commons if anyone wants to use it.
https://w.wiki/Kzuj
#DefendFreeSpeech #AbolishICE #StopGovernmenttCutbacks #TaxTheRich #LetCubaLive #NoArmsToIsrael #EndWarWithIran
#politics #GraphicDesign #Iran #Cuba #Israel #Palestine #ICE #USpol
Edited 159d ago
Various tech things I think the world needed yesterday:
- Handheld keyboard with built-in USB-C dock (USB-A, full size HDMI/DP, SD card slot): to hopefully make modern smartphones viable as laptop substitutes
- Desktop environments that include "view source code" and "open in disassembler"-buttons on every application window and launcher icon
(surprised that #Gentoo or #guix haven't already tried this: considering that their package managers are already built around compiling software from source.)
(Would probably be most practical on systems where every application is written in interpreted languages.)
- Terminal with a context menu where you can find and paste every available command or application, featuring icons and descriptions for all of them
(basically anything that would make command line tools more discoverable)
- clone of Itch[dot]io that only serves FOSS videogames
(I also think it'd be neat if more FOSS games shipped level editors)
- Loss32, @hikari's effort to turn Wine into the primary GUI of a Linux system.
(most of the convenience features and configuration knobs that Wine launchers like Q4Wine or Lutris offer would be more useful if they were implemented as part of a desktop environment: and using a spruced-up version of WineDesktop to that end is a reasonable approach)
(I have mixed feelings about the Windows software ecosystem and the website's "Win32 is the stable Linux ABI"-rhetoric: but being able to use it on a non-Microsoft platform with minimal hassle is pretty important step towards dissolving their chokehold on personal computing)
(All things considered I'm kinda shocked that this hasn't already been attempted by some rogue #LibreOffice, SteamOS or #Qubes contributor.)
- Gentoo-style package manager for Windows and MacOS: to promote the advantages of building software from source even in the darkest corners of the proprietary world
(i dunno this one probably already exists)
- Phone that uses a 2.5 inch SATA SSD as it's primary form of storage
(if it had a particularily good camera, certain types of indie filmmakers would probably have a field day with it)
#FOSS
- Handheld keyboard with built-in USB-C dock (USB-A, full size HDMI/DP, SD card slot): to hopefully make modern smartphones viable as laptop substitutes
- Desktop environments that include "view source code" and "open in disassembler"-buttons on every application window and launcher icon
(surprised that #Gentoo or #guix haven't already tried this: considering that their package managers are already built around compiling software from source.)
(Would probably be most practical on systems where every application is written in interpreted languages.)
- Terminal with a context menu where you can find and paste every available command or application, featuring icons and descriptions for all of them
(basically anything that would make command line tools more discoverable)
- clone of Itch[dot]io that only serves FOSS videogames
(I also think it'd be neat if more FOSS games shipped level editors)
- Loss32, @hikari's effort to turn Wine into the primary GUI of a Linux system.
(most of the convenience features and configuration knobs that Wine launchers like Q4Wine or Lutris offer would be more useful if they were implemented as part of a desktop environment: and using a spruced-up version of WineDesktop to that end is a reasonable approach)
(I have mixed feelings about the Windows software ecosystem and the website's "Win32 is the stable Linux ABI"-rhetoric: but being able to use it on a non-Microsoft platform with minimal hassle is pretty important step towards dissolving their chokehold on personal computing)
(All things considered I'm kinda shocked that this hasn't already been attempted by some rogue #LibreOffice, SteamOS or #Qubes contributor.)
- Gentoo-style package manager for Windows and MacOS: to promote the advantages of building software from source even in the darkest corners of the proprietary world
(i dunno this one probably already exists)
- Phone that uses a 2.5 inch SATA SSD as it's primary form of storage
(if it had a particularily good camera, certain types of indie filmmakers would probably have a field day with it)
#FOSS
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Switzerland plans a gradual shift from Microsoft products to reduce dependency, citing digital sovereignty and long-term control over public IT systems 🇨🇭
Open-source alternatives are under review amid cost, lock-in, and US Cloud Act data access risks tied to foreign providers 🔍
🔗 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-authorities-want-to-reduce-dependency-on-microsoft/
#TechNews #Swiss #Switzerland #Microsoft #OpenSource #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #Sovereignty #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Regulation #Infosec #Tech #Government #IT #Office #LibreOffice #Linux #US
👧🧒 A protección da infancia tamén pasa polo software que se utiliza nas aulas:
https://mancomun.gal/novas/brasil-aproba-unha-lei-para-protexer-a-nenos-e-nenas-no-mundo-dixital/
Brasil aprobou unha das leis máis esixentes do mundo en materia de protección dixital de menores, establecendo requisitos estritos para aplicacións e ferramentas educativas.
LibreOffice, pola súa natureza libre e transparente, encaixa de forma natural nestes principios.
#SoftwareLibre #LibreOffice #TransformaciónDixital #Educación #Privacidade
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No artificial intelligence
LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position.
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https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/
Whoa. @libreoffice unleashes “no AI as a feature” and breaks download records.
“In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories.”
Great work, LibreOffice team! 👏🏻
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai
"LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are never transmitted to remote services and no component requires network access to function. The suite includes no advertising, no telemetry, no subscription and no account requirement, unlike some well-known proprietary office suites."