Comments on: Abiword: A Lean Word-processing Machine

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The PHA › Bookmarks for January 14th from 22:38 to 22:38 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:00:24 +0000

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By: Paul.

Paul. — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:27:43 +0000

Thanks for you thougths Jack after reading your comment i think you write writing Abiword is better. This because i know,thanks to you, now there is a problem with, Sun and the code base and i want no problems with outher applications or components.
p.s. i going to look much closer to KOffice because this is, a integrated office suite. I realy like the combination with KPresenter and Kword.

By: Votre

Votre — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:13:47 +0000

Abiword is an excellent wordprocessor. I loveit’s speed and clean design.

But there was a time when Abiword had trouble with very large documents. Have they since addressed that problem?

By: jack

jack — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:19:33 +0000

There are a number of reasons why you might not want to use OpenOffice.org. First there is the issue with Sun and the code base. If you are really an open source champion you might lean more toward Abiword or KOffice. Second – the size. OpenOffice is pretty large and can be slow (depending upon the machine). Abiword is light and fast…plus it is only a word processor so there is little to no bloat.

I am not saying OpenOffice is bad. I use open office. I do tend to use only the Novell version because it doesn’t have the licensing problems that the Sun version has.

By: Paul.

Paul. — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:06:55 +0000

i forgot to add with main last message that maybay OpenOffice is better because there will be more uniformity?

By: Paul.

Paul. — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:01:07 +0000

Do i understand i correctly that i can only install this program with, Ubuntu and noth with main SUSE Linux Enterprise? And it looks like a great crossplatform wordprocessor. Why not OpenOffice.org 3.0?

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:27:43 +0000

Abiword is nice, I recommend KOffice as well. Well, not yet, but the KOffice 2 betas are really, really good. KOffice 2 should be available on Windows too, I think.