AbiWord: The Underappreciated Word Processor

“Network effects being what they are, OpenOffice.org tends to
suck all the oxygen out of the room when talking about open source
productivity applications. But OpenOffice.org isn’t the only game
in town for open source word processing. One of the best, if
underexposed, open word processors is AbiWord.

“AbiWord has been around for ages, but without the weight of a
company like Sun behind it, the little word processor has gotten
less attention than it deserves. Let’s try to remedy that a
bit.

“Linux users shouldn’t need to hunt too hard to get started with
AbiWord. All of the major distros have AbiWord packages, just
search for “abiword” and grab the packages you want. You might also
want to check for additional packages that add functionality to
AbiWord, like the grammar plugin (abiword-plugin-grammar) on
Ubuntu. Windows users can also find packages, so if you need
cross-platform support AbiWord is good to go on at least two of the
big three. AbiWord packages for Mac OS X are also available, but
they may be a couple of versions behind.”

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