Linux - LibreOffice 3.3 Released

Development team who 'defected' from the recently released OpenOffice office suite based on open source and free, namely LibreOffice 3.3.

After leaving the OpenOffice development team, some developers are then established LibreOffice. Departure of the developers was triggered by acquisitions made by Oracle to OpenOffice.

The 'dissident' is felt that this acquisition could make OpenOffice is open source or free again, although it has denied Oracle.

Not long after leaving, the developer was founded LibreOffice and began developing office applications based on free open source named LibreOffice.

Finally the first stable version of 'rival' of OpenOffice was released by the team of developers, LibreOffice 3.3 and brought the features that are not much different from OpenOffice, but with 'spice' other extras, including support for PDF-based documents, increasing the number of rows in a spreadsheet, an increase support for the printing function, and new fonts.

"We are very pleased. This is the first release stable version of LibreOffice and we hope to get feedback from users," said Red Hat's Caolán McNamara, a spokesman for LibreOffice, who launched V3, quoted by CBN.

Attendance LibreOffice certainly adds an alternative for users of free office applications, especially for Linux users. LibreOffce itself consists of six applications, including word processing Writer, Calc spreadsheets, Impress for presentations, Draw for diagrams, Base database front end and the Math equation editor.

Office suite itself, in addition to Linux, is also available for users of Mac and Windows. If you want to know more clearly and give it a try, please visit the official website LibreOffice.

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Ubuntu Linux Installed In Mobile Nexus S

Humans are creatures homoludens, creatures play, so they never cease to innovate, this is done by the people at XDA forum Fevelopers to change their gadgets for work than usual.

Recently one of XDA-Developers named stroughtonsmith - or Steven Troughton-Smith who previously had managed to fit the OS on the device Nexus S MeeGo now he has managed to insert the Ubuntu Linux operating system in the Nexus S.

Process conducted by Smith almost identical to what has been done previously with the same phone to enter the operating system MeeGo some time ago and now with the process he has managed to fit iti Ubuntu and mobile phones could Nexus S has booted and run it.

For those of you who want to know the steps, please follow the instructions on the following sites

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3rd Stage Opening Windows with Ubuntu Password

Lost is a problem commonly faced by mankind. If you forget your Windows login password, no way to recover it using the Ubuntu Linux operating system.

The first thing to do is create a Live CD or Live USB stick Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Live will be used to boot into the system and perform the procedures required to dismantle the Windows password earlier.
The easiest way to do that is by downloading and running UNetbootin. This simple application will download the selected Ubuntu version and install on the flash that you prepared.
The second stage is to install Open Source utility called chntpw. This is done from Ubuntu by running Synaptic Package Manager.

To be able to get chntpw, Synaptic Package Manager should be directed to look at storage applications Universe. This can be done by clicking the Settings menu> Repositories in Synaptic window. Then, check the option 'Community-maintained Open Source software (universe) "and click Close.
After that, click the Reload button and Synaptic will download the latest package information from the Universe. When finished, type chntpw on the Quick Search box.
If it appears, check the box on the side chnptw writing, choose 'Mark for Installation'. Then click Apply to install it.

The third stage is to change the Windows password with chntpw.

1. Mount the hard disk / drive that contains your Windows installation 
2. Open the hard drive it (click on Places) and record labels drive that appears on the menu bar window file browser 
3. Open a Terminal window (Applications> Accessories> Terminal) 
4. Type the following command in Terminal:cd / medials 
5. Type: cd [label hard drive that you noted earlier] 
6. type: cd WINDOWS/system32/config 
7. To change the Administrator password, type the command: sudo chntpw SAM 
8. You will see several commands that you can choose, the command is safest to create a password to be blank. Do this by pressing the number '1 ', then press' y' to confirm 
9. Select '2 'to change the password to a particular word, but this has a greater risk of error 
10. To change the passwords of other users (non-administrator), type the following command (from Terminal): sudo chntpw-u [user name] SAM

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How To Uninstall Windows And Use Linux Instead

There are some users who have grown beyond the need for Windows and have decided to remove it from their systems.

Really this is only a step that one should take once you have used Linux full time for quite a while and know how to use the system for your needs. Removing Windows isn't completely necessary but some Linux users will want to do this.

There are a couple of ways of doing this. The first would be to partition the hard drive so that you have a Linux partition and a Windows partition. The assumption here is that you already have an installed Linux operating system that you are using and have been duel booting for quite sometime.

The easiest way is to simply reformat and remove the Windows partition making it blank space again and possibly combining back with you Linux partition. You can also just keep the Windows partition once erased and have this for storage space so that you won't mess anything up while trying to combine partitions if you don't know what you are doing.

The other strategy is to boot up on a Live CD with your Linux distribution of choice and install it to the system. Instead of installing it to a partition, you choose to install it and completely write over everything on the entire hard drive. But be very careful! This will delete Windows and everything else completely. Before going through this step one should consider the advantages of also having a copy of Windows on the system because there are still many functionalities that only work with Windows. Always being able to go back and use Windows for a certain application is something that can be valuable. It's understandable when you have a small hard drive that you might need to get rid of it as it takes up quite a bit of space, but don't throw it out just yet even if you love Linux.

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