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[Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/15/2011 05:00 PM, Arief Rachman wrote:

> I need some help. Is there any lightweight software like power point
> in Lubuntu?! Because the main reason why I use netbook is its
> portability to make presentation. But since there's no lightweight
> program to make a presentation, I think I buy netbook become useless.




Most people would not consider PowerPoint to be "lightweight"!  So
"lightweight software like PowerPoint" ... is hard to find.

The OpenOffice.org equivalent of PowerPoint is Impress, in the Ubuntu
pacakge called openoffice.org-impress -- but it is not very lightweight.

http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/LinuxPresentations.html is an old
summary of Linux/Unix/web-based presentation approaches.  Old, but it
may still be useful.

Some of these approaches need more learning time for the presenter than
PowerPoint does... but several really are lightweight.

If you already know and like HTML, then S5 is a decent standards based
presentation system: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ (but it is not
all that similar to PowerPoint!).  I have used it myself.

Jonathan