Several people have mentioned to me that they have given Linux Mint a try following my recent blog post about it. They have consistently been positive about it, with the most common comment being "it ...

As Dell contemplates shipping consumer PCs running Linux rather than Microsoft Windows, the open source community has called upon head honcho Michael Dell to also pre-install OpenOffice office ...

OpenOffice.org extensions are a quick way to add functionality. Writable in a variety of languages, including Java, JavaScript, OpenOffice.org Basic, Python, and C++, they allow developers to ...

In my last few posts about pyuno (SSConverter, OORunner) we used pyuno to convert spreadsheets to CSV files by running OpenOffice from Python using pyuno as the bridge between the two processes. In ...

Security experts have found a vulnerability in the old version of OpenOffice.org that could allow attackers to remote execute code. The good news is that the latest version of OpenOffice was released ...

Security experts have discovered TIFF-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in OpenOffice, which could allow attackers to remotely execute code on Linux, Windows or Apple Mac-based computers.

Oracle’s purchase of Sun last week is reviving calls for Sun’s open-source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun out into an independent foundation. Slideshow: Hottest tech M&A deals of 2009 Oracle is one ...