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- SolutionBase: KWord and AbiWord offer word processor alternatives for Linux users
- Sometimes individual office application alternatives are better suited for the actual job than the mighty giants. In these instances, you can find word processors not so insistent upon gulping up massive amounts of memory, space, or budget; you might even find those "little apps that could" do their job just...
- Tags: Word-processing, Processor, Bookmark, Linux, Menu, Document, Window, Web Browser, Word-processor, KOffice, Tool, KWord, AbiWord, UI, Wikipedia Plug-in, Productivity, Word Processors, OpenOffice, Software, Office Suites, Jack Wallen
- Technical articles 2007-11-01
- What good is a standard that’s not standard?
- With Office 2007 on the horizon and the introduction of thenew Open XML file format for saving files, a lot of news and noise has beengenerated about the need for a truly open standard for opening and savingfiles. One of the most popular alternative and ‘open’ file formats is the...
- Tags: File Format, KWord, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office, Opendoc, Openoffice, Staff, Standards, TechRepublic Pro, word-processor
- Blog posts 2006-10-02
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- The Linux word processor showdown
- Linux word processors are chipping away at Microsoft Word's ownership of the usability label. Check out this Daily Drill Down to see how StarOffice 6.0 matches up to the current word processing leader.The biggest complaint about Linux is its lack of supportive applications. One of the most common concerns is...
- Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Jack Wallen, Jr., KWord 1.1.1, Microsoft Word, word-processor, font, Linux
- Technical articles 2002-05-01
- Ease of use: But for who?
- Over the weekend I was writing an article for TechRepublic about two alternative Linux word processors (Abiword and KWord.) As I was writing this article, I discovered something that might lend a hand to not only the developers of those tools but to Linux developers in general. This discovery is...
- Tags: Developer, Ease Of Use, Word-processor, OpenOffice.org, Tool, Wikipedia, Linux, Productivity, OpenOffice, Word Processors, Wiki, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Office Suites, Online Communications, Jack Wallen
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- SolutionBase: KWord and AbiWord offer word processor alternatives for Linux users
- What linux requires in a word processor packageRecent discussions concerning which word processor in linux is great is futile. The exercise is like changing four quarters for one dollar. In the end, they are essentially the same.What is missing from every linux word processor is a grammar checker. Not just...
- Tags: Word processors, OPEN SOURCE, lsatenstein@..., English Grammar, word-processor, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- Chasing Roswell (or Getting wowed by Red Hat 7.2)
- Jack Wallen, Jr., has found the truth: Red Hat Linux will soon release the best Linux distribution ever, which includes the ext3 journaling filesystem and KDE 2.2. Find out what Jack thinks of the beta for the yet-to-be-released 7.2.It seems that the red hats from Durham, NC, can't do any...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Jack Wallen, Jr., Red Hat Inc., KDE, Konqueror, Linux, Grub, Web browser
- Technical articles 2001-10-16
- A preview of KDE 2.0
- KDE 2.0, the next incarnation of the K Desktop Environment, has been worth the wait. In this Daily Feature, Vincent Danen explains why.It's coming! KDE 2.0 is close to a final release, which many KDE users have been eagerly anticipating for quite a while now. KDE 2.0, the next incarnation...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Vincent Danen, KDE, KDE 2.0
- Technical articles 2000-10-23
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