Yep , but Debian LXDE does have the entire open office suite installed and it weights in at just under 500 megs.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Andrew Woodhead < [email protected]> wrote: > It's not copying, it is as you say learning from others. OpenOffice just > isn't suitable but will be accessible via reops if you must install it. I > personally only use abiword and know a great many users who have the entire > suite installed and only use the writer. Its laughable. > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Dallas Wiebelhaus > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 < >> [email protected]> 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 < >>> [email protected]> 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 : >>>> 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 : [email protected] >>> 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 : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop<https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-desktop> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >
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