Mark Grieveson wrote: >[....] And now back to my first digression: I realize that Abiword's latest > has a grammar check (coincidentally, I also had no problem installing > the latest Abiword on Sarge, which means anyone could install it, the > newest of the new, on Sarge).
That isn't true of all software (the easy part anyway). Sure I can ./configure make make install... But that defeats the purpose of a package management system. Or I could add sid to my sources.list file on Sarge and attempt to install a package from Sid and find there are libraries that are missing when I attempt to apt-get it. Or find that said package is compiled with GCC 4.0 when everything I have is 3.whatever and therefore I practically have to upgrade the whole freakin distro just to add one piece of software. Or it I might get lucky and it just might "work" after all. You never know... No thanks, I'll stay away from Sarge. I'll save it for my "mission critical" box... (Oh wait, I don't have one of those. ;-) ). > However, it fell far short of WordPerfect > 6.1's Grammatik (released just as mankind was picking up sticks and > learning to beat the Monolith, I believe). Likewise, Diction, a Unix > tool, has been around forever; so, why do Linux word processors not have > something that Windows word processors have had since mankind first > realized the significance of having an opposable digit? That must have been some grammar checker in WP 6.1. Every one I've ever used in Word (up through Word 2000) sucked. -- Scott www.angrykeyboarder.com © 2005 angrykeyboarder & Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved
