Re: Replacement for Abiword: LyX? Openoffice?
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:13, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> Abiword has been removed from testing. This keeps junior-writing out of
> sarge because of its dependency on abiword. I will have to remove abiword
> from junior-writing, but I would like to replace it with another WYSIWYG
> word processor.
>
> Should I replace abiword with LyX? This will considerably increase the size
> of Debian Jr. because to be truly useful, I believe I also need to include
> tetex, which is massive. Furthermore, there is the question of whether LyX
> is truly a word processor that children can use.
>
> An alternative is to depend on openoffice, but then we'd have the same
> "bloat" issue.
>
> Are there users here whose children use either LyX or Openoffice? Any
> comments on usability of these packages with children?
I *know* that *all* children will whine, moan, complain, and state
that the world is coming to an end, but why not text-mode word
processors? WordStar served me quite well in University. (Yes, I'm
officially a geezer. My wife just made me cut back my long beard :()
Also, SIAG Office seems pretty light-weight:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
me 10380 0.3 0.3 8396 3860 pts/1 S 13:54 0:00 pw
me 10381 0.0 0.3 8396 3860 pts/1 S 13:54 0:00 pw
me 10382 0.0 0.3 8396 3860 pts/1 S 13:54 0:00 pw
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