[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice runs on the Raspberry Pi, with the right license

Hi :)
Just in case anyone here is not on the announce list i just thought you might like to know that LO 
runs on a machine that is about as small as the smallest mobile phones, possibly even smaller.  

Regards from
Tom :)  




> ________________________________
> From: Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org>
> To: announce@documentfoundation.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2012, 11:13
> Subject: [tdf-announce] LibreOffice runs on the Raspberry Pi, with the right license
>
> The full fledged free office suite is available on the credit card sized
> single-board computer developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation
>
> Cambridge (UK) and Berlin (Germany), December 20, 2012 - The Raspberry
> Pi Foundation (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) and The Document Foundation
> (http://www.documentfoundation.org/) announce the availability of the
> full fledged version of LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/) on the
> Raspberry Pi, the credit-card sized computer created with the intention
> of stimulating the teaching of basic computer science in schools. The
> Raspberry Pi is a little PC which plugs into a TV and a keyboard and can
> be used for many of the things that most desktop PC can do, like
> spreadsheets, word-processing and games.
>
> LibreOffice is the first comprehensive office suite to run on a 40
> dollar credit card sized PC, without any compromise on features and
> performances. LibreOffice has been ported to ARM by multiple
> contributors from Canonical, Debian and RedHat, and was packaged for the
> Raspberry Pi by Rene Engelhard as a part of his work as the Debian
> maintainer for LibreOffice.
>
> "The availability of LibreOffice, the best free office suite ever, on
> the Raspberry Pi - the most affordable PC ever, targeted to hardware and
> software enthusiasts, and schools - is extremely important for The
> Document Foundation, because it will contribute to the growth of the
> brand awareness in key market segments", comments Bjoern Michaelsen, a
> Canonical developer and a deputy member of the Board of Directors of The
> Document Foundation.
>
> "I'm very impressed that the LibreOffice team didn't have to make any
> changes to the code in order for it to compile and smoothly run on
> Raspberry Pi", said Eben Upton from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. "It's
> also great to have a comprehensive office suite available in the Pi
> Store at launch, making people even more aware of the potential of this
> device".
>
> LibreOffice is available from the Raspberry Pi Store
> (http://store.raspberrypi.com/projects/libreoffice), which is described
> here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2768 (including instructions
> on how to install it). Raspberry Pi Foundation announcement press
> release is here: http://blog.indiecity.com/?page_id=2269.
>
> UPDATE (December 20, 2012): The license blurb has been fixed, and it now
> links to the LGPLv3 text.
>
> About the Raspberry Pi
>
> The Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer, designed to fit in a pocket, and
> cheap enough to be bought with pocket money. It was developed by the
> not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge to help children
> engage with computer programming, and has won dozens of awards in its
> first year of release. Additional information at http://www.raspberrypi.org.
>
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