It's not copying, it is as you say learning from others. OpenOffice just isn't suitable but will be accessible via reops if you must install it. I personally only use abiword and know a great many users who have the entire suite installed and only use the writer. Its laughable.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Dallas Wiebelhaus <wiebelh...@gmail.com>wrote: > I agree Abiword is so incredibly fast and small and if someone has not > tried it they should give it a spin , it's a brilliant little application! I > could foresee someone adding openoffice if they needed that extra > functionality but for simple out of the box word processing in a small > efficient quick package , abiword can't be beat. We should all take a long > hard look at what other small distributions are doing because they like > Puppy have already pounded these discussions out , I'm not saying to copy > but to learn from from their methodology. > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Andrew Woodhead < > andrew.woodhead...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> OpenOffice in my opinion is far too bulky for a lightweight distro. >> >> 0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. >> Need to get 123MB of archives. >> After this operation, 412MB of additional disk space will be used. >> >> Its just stupidly fat and bloated and doesn't fit with the ethos of >> Lubuntu. 0.5Gb for office productivity when gnumeric and abiword use a >> microscopic fraction of this. >> >> No way >> >> -Andy >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Ed Hewitt < >> edwardahew...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> I think we should go with Firefox. However, OpenOffice would solve the >>> problem of having no presentation software if we went with Abiword & >>> Gnumeric. We could use these tweaks to speed up OpenOffice. >>> >>> http://lifehacker.com/software/optimization/speed-up-openoffice-270775.php >>> >>> By going "small", we will achieve the objective of achieving a >>> lightweight distro. However, I still think a good out of the box experience, >>> as long as we keep it to a minimal. So by having a few basic utilities (such >>> as synaptic), need a few must have apps (such as web browser, office apps, >>> chat, media player). we can still achieve a user friend lightweight distro. >>> Its all about getting the right balance. >>> >>> Maybe another Lubuntu IRC Meeting could be useful to discuss my points. >>> It would be great to have an application list set in time for Karmic. Could >>> be Lubuntu's first release???? >>> >>> -- >>> www.edhewitt.co.uk >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: >>> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >>> Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : >>> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >> Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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