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List:       abiword-user
Subject:    Re: no thesaurus
From:       Alan Horkan <horkana () maths ! tcd ! ie>
Date:       2006-07-31 23:16:48
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.58L0.0608010008300.77399 () salmon ! maths ! tcd ! ie
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Beartooth wrote:

> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:19:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Beartooth <karhunhammas@Lserv.com>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
> Cc: yt <yotango@yahoo.com>, abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: no thesaurus
>
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> >
> > Also you might consider giving the Linux version of Abiword a
> > try.  Live CDs make it quite easy to try out Linux and VMWare
> > player is another option.  Maybe that is more technical than
> > you want but I figured I should make sure the option was
> > mentioned in case you wanted to try it out and experiment.
>
>  	It's easy to get Live CDs of Knoppix or Ubuntu for the
> asking. You reboot to one, do whatever you want -- without
> touching your hard drive unless you tell it to -- take it out,
> reboot to the Abominable OS, and nothing is changed.

I was hesitant to recommend a specific Live CD since I wanted to be sure
to recommend one that did include Abiword by default.  I have a strong
feeling Ubuntu does not include Abiword on their Live CD which is
unfortunate given how slow some other applications can be on a Live CD.

Knopppix does include Abiword in the standard version.

Puppy Linux seems to be one of the few other distributions to include
Abiword[1] by default.  http://puppylinux.org


--
Alan H.

[1] List of puppylinux software
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyLinuxMainPage
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