A master carpenter would neither drive a finishing nail with a sledgehammer nor trim a tabletop with a chain saw. Such a craftsperson needs tools that are small, versatile and cheap. One such tool — ...

It works on most major OS platforms and supports many languages; it’s able to read and write most documents in Microsoft Word’s .doc format, as well as twenty others; its authors claim it can do most ...

The community of software developers who hang out on the IRC chat channel #abiword is small; the number of nicknames registered as present rarely breaks two dozen. But the room is open, and active, 24 ...

Word processing is perhaps one of the most essential uses for acomputer on any platform. The Linux OS offers more obscure wordprocessors than other OSes; however, few of these apps offer usersthe ...

Abiword and Gnumeric are generally much more smooth-looking than OpenOffice. Gnumeric is really an excellent program, my experience with Abiword is a little less extensive but it seems to be a very ...