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[Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <wiebelhaus@xxxxxxxxx>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 <
> andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <
>> edwardahewitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>>>
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