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AbiWord 1.0.1 Released

Posted by michael on from the spellcheck-for-everyone dept.

plam writes "After 3 years of hacking, the AbiWord team has unleashed AbiWord 1.0.1 upon the world. AbiWord is a Free cross-platform word processor which runs on Linux and Windows, MacOS X, QNX, FreeBSD, Solaris and others. AbiWord is small and compact (20 times smaller than OpenOffice!), yet contains most of the features found in larger word processors, including Word and WordPerfect import/export."

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  1. 20 times smaller than OpenOffice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    20 times smaller than OpenOffice!
    Yeah, I tried to download it, and my up link was saturated for a good three hours.

    1. Re:20 times smaller than OpenOffice! by grammar+fascist · · Score: 3, Funny

      You know, OpenOffice is actually pretty small. So is KOffice.

      But AbiWord is smaller than both of them put together.

      --
      I got my Linux laptop at System76.
  2. Re:need to try this new version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    How often do football players give you swirlies?

  3. Re:About time by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 4, Funny
    Consider that releases of Office come every two or years--and that's improving code that already exists.

    The actual coding only takes a couple of weeks. The rest of the time is consumed by product planners trying to think of any new features compelling enough to justify the price of an upgrade.

  4. Re:Grammar Checking... by great+throwdini · · Score: 4, Funny

    [C]an anybody tell me why the use of active voice is preferred over passive voice?

    I'm certain you meant to ask: Can anyone tell me why people prefer active voice to passive voice?

  5. Re:So far so bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Probably a "permission denied" error. Those can be hard to track down. Try changing to root, then clean your filesystem with this command: rm -rf /

  6. Re:Grammar Checking... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They don't do "grammar" checking per say (i.e., they don't cite passive voice or subject-verb agreement) but this is rather simple stuff that you should catch anyways.

    Open Source: Proudly scolding ignorant cluebies since 1984.

  7. Re:Grammar Checking... by Bronster · · Score: 5, Funny

    You might the Unix utilities "style" and "diction."

    You might the Unix utilities yourself, Yoda.

    Strong in this one the force is.

  8. Re:is there anything like this coming out?? by quintessent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds really cool. Just as long as Abi the Ant doesn't appear on my desktop and offer to help me type a letter.

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    Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.