[wellylug] Linux for portable / laptop

[Phil Daintree]

Puppy comes with abiword which is usable, there is a squash file addin for the latest openoffice whilst these are big applications they have come a long way from the monster it was. I do use swriter in preference to abiword, but abiword can save and open word docx files too. 
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Nathan Bentley <nathan at heliumnz.co.nz> wrote:

>Having no real allegiance to any particular distro (if I had to pick it
>would be Redhat, simply because thats the last I used years ago) I
>guess I have the benefit of no previous personal experience to sway me.
>
>The appeal of Wattos is growing on me now though. The battery in the
>machine is one of the economy spec things, at best I was getting about
>30-40 minutes out of Vista in "pretty mode". What really grinds my
>gears though is the boot time which just seems to be getting longer and
>longer. I dunno why. Maybe I'm just used to my faster machines but it
>feels like its taking ages to get going.
>
>My plan for this machine is to rice it out with a coat of paint and
>some of that fake carbon fibre clingwrap stuff. I'm not cool enough for
>an iproduct, but I want to take it with me and chip away on some stuff
>I'm writing without having to carry all the extra crap around.
>
>So the next question - whats Open Office like these days? I've used it
>on and off and to be honest I hated it originally and never had any
>love for it further down the track. I tried AbiWord as well, but that
>seemed a bit naff a couple of years ago.
>
>Can you guys suggest a WP that can save as MS .doc format without a
>whole lot of embedded stuff on top as well? Font library and formatting
>tools are of little importance. Mostly I just want a spell and grammar
>check.
>
>All this talk of installs and clingwrapping computers is reviving the
>nerd in me. Cheers!
>
>"Its coming back"
>
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>
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>[mailto:wellylug-bounces at lists.wellylug.org.nz] On Behalf Of Adam
>Bogacki
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>> Hi all. First time caller long time listener.
>>
>> Actually that's not true, I just got here.
>>
>> Hey I want to run a distro on a roughly 3 year old low spec acer
>machine. I dunno what the specs are off the top of my head but it cost
>me 600 bucks in Australia from a retailer so thats the level I'm
>talking.
>>
>> I'm mostly interested in a nix that is touted for battery life, low
>consumption and quick booting. I'm normally a windows retard and
>replacing the Vista install on it that just seems to be getting worse
>and worse, which is a shame 'cause I never really said anything bad
>about vista.
>>
>> I have an install of Xampp on it as it stands so I can demo websites
>on the windows machine, all this stuff is still standard in most linux
>distro's right? Its been close enough to 10 years since I used Linux
>last and now I really don't know much about the subject.
>>
>> Can anyone make a recommendation of the best distro, or a laptop
>specific version that I could try first off?
>>
>> Cheers
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>I have been using a dual-boot system with debian testing / unstable on 
>the main drive, and
>WattOS ubuntu on the other using LXDE and xfce as optional window
>managers.
>
>Debian's transition to 6.0 borked the install during a routine upgrade 
>so I switched to WattOS with xfce
>to get stuff done. I am still using it six months later.
>
>WattOS was developed to cater for the minimal power consumption of 
>devices such as netbooks,
>although their sales seem to have peaked with the current popularity 
>tablets (ipad, Samsung)
>which are essentially netbooks with onscreen keyboards.
>
>I find WattOS/xfce useful for most uses, but am starting to appreciate 
>'the Debian way' again.
>
>I'll have to get around to doing the reinstall.
>
>Adam.
>
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