On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 11:02:25PM -0700, mike montgomery wrote:
> I just installed and tried Abiword. I am impressed. This is a very good
> program. Its small ~3 megs and simple to use, but it works very well. If
> you are interested in trying it out here's their web site
>
> http://www.abisource.com/
> Their rpm did not work for me, so I used the static tar ball.
>
> I like the fact that it is being developed as open source software.
> I think that Abiword would make a really good addition to Mandrake.
> I think Mandrake needs an easy to use word processor that is not weighted
> down with too many unneeded functions. Corel and Staroffice are nice ,but
> have you ever used all the stuff they include? Now that I have found
> Abiword I might just delete Staroffice and get ~60 Megs of disk space back.
>
> Try it out and see what you think.
Thanks for the tip! I saw the announcement a while ago, but wasn't sure if it's
worthwhile. Will give it a try (although at the moment I'd need 48h days to get
all my stuff done...)
tom
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