Comments on: Tiny Core: A Linux-geek-slash-manager’s best friend

By: Going over covered ground « Motho ke motho ka botho

Going over covered ground « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:56:05 +0000

[...] is sometimes a possibility. I fawned over Tiny Core Linux once already, and I’d love to do it again because recent versions are even [...]

By: James

James — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:47:01 +0000

“But even Abiword wants more than 140Mb of space and half of the Gnome infrastructure to install in Arch.”

Wait, what? I hacked on AbiWord a bit this past summer, and 140 mb sounds like a lot for a minimal install.

I *think* (could be wrong here) that Gnome is just used for printing support. Compiling with the –disable-print option should remove Gnome dependencies. I mean, I know Arch Linux includes all the bells and whistles, but I doubt you’d have difficulty making a minimal build.
http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Compiling_AbiWord

I suspect the Gnome dependencies will be dropped in favor of GTK2′s printing functionality once Cairo rendering is satisfactorily completed.

By: damaged justice

damaged justice — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:09:56 +0000

wvware is the one I was thinking of. Worked great in my ~/.mailcap for years, but I've been using Abiword the last few on those rare occasions when someone sends me MS docs.

By: Dieter_be

Dieter_be — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:43:20 +0000

There are some commandline tools to open word files too.
Can’t come up with their names right now though.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:56:36 +0000

Ah, I was hoping someone would mention Google docs. Yes, that would have been an option, except these were “sensitive” documents, and not really ideal to be sharing with Google. So yes, under normal circumstances I might have used that too, but as it stands I’m afraid sending Google something like that might have proven … detrimental to my career.

By: mads

mads — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:49:48 +0000

I hate being beaten to the punch….

By: mads

mads — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:49:00 +0000

A nice solution and i don’t wanna rain on your parade … but for non-hazzle it would probably be easier to go with google docs:
http://documents.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=49008
A bit too boring to warrant a post, though

By: wwzulu

wwzulu — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:47:02 +0000

What comes to my mind on such an occasion is open Google docs. It lacks some functionality but for simple tasks maybe quite useful.