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Italian military to switch to LibreOffice and ODF

The Italian military is transitioning to LibreOffice and the Open Document Format (ODF). The Ministry of Defense will over the next year-and-a-half install this suite of office productivity tools on some 150,000 PC workstations – making it Europe’s second largest LibreOffice implementation. The switch was announced on 15 September by the LibreItalia Association. The migration … Read more

How #Debian and other #opensource projects are making #software more trustworthy

Open-source software is especially trustworthy compared to closed-source software because you can see the source code of the program you’re running.   Or can you? You probably aren’t compiling all your software from source—you’re getting packages provided by your Linux distribution. But how do you know those binary packages were actually compiled from that source … Read more

What is open source software?

Open source software is software whose source code is available for modification or enhancement by anyone. “Source code” is the part of software that most computer users don’t ever see; it’s the code computer programmers can manipulate to change how a piece of software—a “program” or “application”—works. Programmers who have access to a computer program’s … Read more

LibreOffice 5.0: The strongest release to date

I’ve been a long-time user of the flagship open-source office suite… using it way back during its previous incarnation called Star Office. I’ve watched the software evolve, fall apart, fork, and finally come into its own. Recently, the fifth release of LibreOffice was made available to the public. I immediately downloaded and installed the release … Read more

Better security, privacy and anonymity in Firefox

In this post gathered some information about several attacks that can be used to track, identity web-browser users in many ways. I will show you here how to protect yourself from those attacks. Information given here should be useful for many communities, for people who hate ads online, who don’t want to be tracked online … Read more

Open Call for #GlobaLeaks #Developers

Are you interested in making the world a better place by putting your development skills to use in a globally used free software project? Do you feel passionate about using web technologies for developing highly usable web applications? Then read on – this may interest you! GlobaLeaks is the first Open Source Anonymous Whistleblowing software … Read more