On 2010/05/26 12:34 PM David B Teague wrote:
On 5/26/2010 8:27 AM, James Greenidge wrote:
Re:
Myself, I'd love to see a stand-alone OOo Writer that'd both run
quicker and use less memory, especially in older Macs. The closest
Macs have to such is the moribund AbiWord, which did a fair job
handling OOo docs before it went belly-up. I hope OOo code is open
source enough to allow an enterprising guy to take a whack at a
stand-alone OOo Writer.
Before OO.o I was an ardent Abiword supporter and user. I wondered why
you describe it as being "belly up". I went to the web site and read
up on it. The company that had been supporting the research chose to
stop, but the developers continue working. There is a current version
of Abiword, 2.8.4. I just fetched and installed it.
2.8.4 is not available for Macs. The last version available for Macs is
2.4.5 from Aug. 2006. That definitely qualifies as moribund as far as
Mac users are concerned.
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Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
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Edgard Varese
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