** Sabi ni Mikol noong Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:35:45 +0800

> I've tried hard to love OpenOffice, but for a high school LTSP with legacy 
> computers, We can't give in to its bloat. Guess we might opt for MSOffice on 
> Win4Lin, and run periodic virus cleaning with their documents instead.

Inadvisable, IMHO.

> We might also try AbiWord on Gnome 2.0 sometime. AbiWord is really fast even 
> in Gnome 1.4. The only thing that's keeping me from using Abiword before were 
> the ugly fonts.

I have AbiWord 0.9.6 and have issues reading M$ Word files. To see what was
going on, I ran it from an X terminal so I could see the error or warning
messages. Not that seeing  them helped, couldn't understand them. In any event,
the fonts on my copy are OK. FreeBSD 4.6 with XFree86 v4.2.0

I also have KOffice, similar issues. Wondering about WordPerfect, w/c I'd have
to pay for since my use would be "non-commercial" (i.e., I'm paid for what I
write). Hmm, just checked the WP site and there's academic edition although I
can't find prices. Interestingly enough, there's a Web demo w/c probly requires
a Java-enabled browser. Might be worth looking into as well.

Mabuhay.
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