I agree Abiword is so incredibly fast and small and if someone has not tried it they should give it a spin , it's a brilliant little application! I could foresee someone adding openoffice if they needed that extra functionality but for simple out of the box word processing in a small efficient quick package , abiword can't be beat. We should all take a long hard look at what other small distributions are doing because they like Puppy have already pounded these discussions out , I'm not saying to copy but to learn from from their methodology.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Andrew Woodhead < andrew.woodhead...@googlemail.com> wrote: > OpenOffice in my opinion is far too bulky for a lightweight distro. > > 0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 123MB of archives. > After this operation, 412MB of additional disk space will be used. > > Its just stupidly fat and bloated and doesn't fit with the ethos of > Lubuntu. 0.5Gb for office productivity when gnumeric and abiword use a > microscopic fraction of this. > > No way > > -Andy > > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Ed Hewitt <edwardahew...@googlemail.com > > wrote: > >> I think we should go with Firefox. However, OpenOffice would solve the >> problem of having no presentation software if we went with Abiword & >> Gnumeric. We could use these tweaks to speed up OpenOffice. >>> >> http://lifehacker.com/software/optimization/speed-up-openoffice-270775.php >> >> By going "small", we will achieve the objective of achieving a lightweight >> distro. However, I still think a good out of the box experience, as long as >> we keep it to a minimal. So by having a few basic utilities (such as >> synaptic), need a few must have apps (such as web browser, office apps, >> chat, media player). we can still achieve a user friend lightweight distro. >> Its all about getting the right balance. >> >> Maybe another Lubuntu IRC Meeting could be useful to discuss my points. It >> would be great to have an application list set in time for Karmic. Could be >> Lubuntu's first release???? >> >> -- >> www.edhewitt.co.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >> Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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