AbiWord Weekly News #109 by Eric A. Zen | Linux Today

AbiWord Weekly News #109 by Eric A. Zen

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 17, 2002

“Less Cute Maintainer of All Stable Things (Mark Gilbert)
declares 1.0.3, Désir satisfait, ‘worst release,
EVER!’ Delayed by several binaries and couple of bugs, 1.0.3 is
practically on it’s way out the door!

“Eye-Candy included in here, plus, for those of you that can’t
make it to chat: ‘I have a fever 107…CELSIUS!, but I was
inspired.’ Of course we worry about Marc’s health, but you can’t
beat this with a cue stick!

“Oh, and if you’d like to know what’s in this week’s AWN, we
have: more eye-candy, 1.0.3 on a roll, a POW in midZAP, Gilbertian
thought, oh, and did anyone tell you today about 1.0.3 being tagged
and tarballs already available? The name is Prussian for ‘worst
release, EVER!’ I believe it to be an innuenduous reference…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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