On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:56, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> > If they have a decent linux distro they would be able to run Abiword or
> > other faster word processors anyway so is not like people will get locked
> > out.
>
> Abiword/Kword and Gnumeric were actually my first thoughts and are
> certainly smaller and faster.  I can see advantages of not giving tobacco,
> alcohol and presentation graphics to kids ;) but 'draw' and 'base' are
> useful.

Actually, SIAG Office would be a good choice too - compressed, its source 
comes to about one-and-a-half meg.  It should fill only a few meg of RAM.

You'd just have to twist a few arms to get certain names dropped so hard 
they'd bounce - most people don't want a Pathetic Writer - add a grammar 
checker and make it Empathic Writer ... ;)

Wesley Parish
>
> -Lars
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