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.
AbiWord has been a candidate for Mandrake 6.0, but not selected for
several reasons.
Greets,
Gaël.
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