[ale] Installfest ONLY a week away

[matty91 at bellsouth.net]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Matthew Magee wrote:

> For some reason, I had forgotten about AbiWord.  I have used it before and
> found it quite useful.
>

The new version of AbiWord is fantastic! It has worked with all of my
existing documents, and is much faster than open office's writer app.

> I have been doing some homework before bringing this thing in Sat.  So far, I
> have tried some live demos to get a feel for the speed of the finished
> product.  So far, I only got Demo Linux to work with X.  Looked terrible, but
> the machine's performance was acceptable.  I couldn't get my SuSe LiveEval
> working, and I couldn't get Morhpix working in X.  I have found some other
> people who have used Linux on this particular model of ThinkPad (thanks Dow!)
> and I'll bring the info with me to make this less painful.
>
> Somehow, I am getting the feeling that Slackware will be the best choice.  Any
> seconds on that one.
>
> I will bring Damnsmalllinux, Morphix KDE and Morphix Lightweight edition with
> me in case anyone wants/needs them.  I won't have any copies, as the
> cdburner's giving me fits, but feel free to make a copy if someone brings a
> cd burner.
>
> On Thursday 09 October 2003 09:45 pm, Holmquist, Thomas W. wrote:
> > > I'll need X.  Looking for browsing capabilities, email and word
> >
> > processing.  I
> >
> > > will need .doc format compatability, so that would mean Open Office, if I
> >
> > can
> >
> > > install just the Writer.
> >
> > For the word processing, you might want to check out AbiWord. It's a slim,
> > yet super nice word processor with features that rival OO.Org
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