Open Office 1.1 seems to load a lot faster than open office 1.0 - I
think that was one of the things they worked on.  Not sure which of
these is in Woody though.  I imagine it would be 1.0

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:49:34 +1200, Andrew Errington
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I can report that AbiWord is a reasonable small Wordprocessor.  It does
> > have a few minor issues, but it works satisfactorily.  It doesn't like
> > big files - I downloaded a 1.56 MB RTF document I had stored on a
> > web-site of mine, and it took too long to load.  It loads smaller files
> > quite quickly, and is the fastest of all the wordprocessors I have tried,
> > for small files.
> >
> > Just thought some of you out there might be interested in knowing this.
> > Anyone who needs a small, fast multi-platform wordprocessor without all
> > the bells and whistles ... ;)
> 
> AbiWord v1.0.2 comes with Debian Stable (woody).  I used it a couple of
> times, and quite liked it.  To be honest, I haven't really fixed on a
> favourite wordprocessor with Linux.  I like KWord, I find Open Office takes
> too long to load, and AbiWord was nice.  I reckon if I loaded up a later
> distro I'd get better apps but for now I don't much care.  At least I
> *have* a choice.
> 
> Good luck with the writing.  Follow your muse!
> 
> Andy
>

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