Author Archives: Bart Westgeest

From Ubuntu 9.04 to Fedora 12?

I thought that updating Linux Ubuntu would be quick and easy, but in the end it took me more than a week. After the switch from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 I was stuck with a system that could start and … Continue reading

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Vim – The keyboard text editor.

Vim is a well elaborated editor for many platforms including Windows, Linux and Mac, with a speciality: You can do all the work in the editor without letting your fingers leave the keyboard.  So you don’t need a mouse for … Continue reading

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Three Web Operating Systems (WebOS) to create your online office

Besides working with online word processors such as Zoho Writer or Google Docs one can also work on a complete desktop environment online. These are the so called Web Operating Systems. One can argue about the usefulness of environments like that as you already … Continue reading

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AbiWord – First Impressions

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. Not being used to AbiWord I opened the word processor and started writing down what came to my mind. … Continue reading

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Yalm Magazine compared Abiword with OpenOffice.org Writer

There is a nice article in the German Linux-orientated Yalm Magazine about Abiword and OpenOffice.org Writer. Both Wordprocessors function flawlessly under Windows as well so the article might be interesting for many readers. It is in German however but since … Continue reading

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A list of text applications that can be found in Linux Ubuntu – Part 3

In part 1 of this series of 3 posts I wrote about what text editing applications I can install on my computer using the options available under Linux Ubuntu 9.04. I listed the text editing software available that can be … Continue reading

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