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AbiWord 1.0.1 Released
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."
Eat it! Long live AC posting!
suck as bad as it always has?
face it, corel Word perfect was
your only hope, and look,
Corel went bankrupt supporting Linux.
Open source can't make money.
sorry for the lineebreaks but the
Dreamcast doesn't wrap text very well
But for $50 it sure is a great
portable internet solution
I should get web browser V 3
which supporots cookieis so I
could login and blast you
slashbots in the ass. Too bad
maybe nezt time,
Your Mission For Today
This has no syntax highlighting, no built in ftp client and no support for reg exp in the replace dialogue. Therefore, I'm not going to code in it. If you open a document in vi to do your find/replace, then vi is your text editor - whatever else you use is a feature-bloated form of /bin/less.
:)
If I'm just using it to print up character sheets, pico or word pad suffices (although AbiWord is comfortably smaller, and probably more stable, than WordPad.)
So, given that I won't use it for either of the two types of documents that exist, why would I get it?
Seriously - if it doesn't have syntax-checking (as language specific plugins, of course), it isn't for nerds. Scripts that can deal with office documents are a very promising proposition, but not without reg exp - of course that plugin could include reg exp; the plugins have no documentation.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
Sorry for this offtopic rant.
/opt]# rpm -Uvh abiword-gnome-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
/opt]# rpm -Uvh abiword-gtk-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
[root@XXX
error: failed dependencies:
gal >= 0.8 is needed by abiword-1.0.1-1
gnome-print >= 0.29 is needed by abiword-1.0.1-1
gnome-vfs is needed by abiword-1.0.1-1
libbonobo.so.2 is needed by abiword-1.0.1-1
libbonobox.so.2 is needed by abiword-1.0.1-1
libgal.so.7 is needed by abiword-1.0.1-1 libgconf-1.so.1 is needed by abiword-1.0.1-1 libgconf-gtk-1.so.1 is needed by abiword-1.0.1-1 libgnomeprint.so.15 is needed by abiword-1.0.1-1 libgnomevfs.so.0 is needed by abiword-1.0.1-1 liboaf.so.0 is needed by abiword-1.0.1-1
ARGH!
[root@XXX
Preparing... [100%]
package abiword-0.9.6.1-1 (which is newer than abiword-1.0.1-1) is already installed
DOUBLE ARGH!!
(and while I'm at it, friggin' lameness filter...)
Seriously, it really sucks when Linux is a sophisticated OS with sophisticated applications and a goddamned archaic installation system.
I tried AbiWord sometime back and found it quite buggy and overall a piece of crap, but now that 1.0.1 has rolled along I decided to give it a whirl...at least I wanted to.
It won't install, it builds fine - but when it comes to 'make install' it coughs - goes through just about the entire tree with "nothing to be done" messages and then bitches about something, in my rage I forgot to scribble it down.
For a 1.0.x release, I have to say this sucks. Am I trolling? Nope - just trying to say that if you're going to release 1.0.1 - it had better at least install correctly.