>
> Robert Staudinger wrote:
>> On 8/7/06, John T. Haller <abiword@johnhaller.com> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> WINE Support - The new launcher has been written and tested to work
>>> with
>>> Wine within your favorite UNIX/Linux distro. You can both install and
>>> run AbiWord Portable within Wine without issue.
>>
>> That's certainly very cool (rumor has it that AbiWord was used as a
>> test app in the development of WINE). I'd however be a bit wary about
>> marketing it as a feature. Many linux users will be better off using
>> the autopackage distribution (at the price of
>> portable-as-in-carry-ness).
>>
>> Apart from that, hats off for your effort, [1] says
>> Downloads: 44,000
>> which is, well, wow.
>>
>> [1] http://portableapps.com/apps/office/word_processors/portable_abiword
>
> Howdy Robert,
>
> It looks like there are some issues with AbiWord running within Wine,
> unfortunately. Something about Uniscribe not working but the old
> renderer working ok. I'm going to experiment more tomorrow with it to
> see if I can make any headway. It's more of a "hey that's neat" thing
> for apps like AbiWord Portable. It's much more useful for apps like
> Firefox Portable and Thunderbird Portable as you can actually get at
> your email and bookmarks when you need them on a *nix box... not to
> mention being able to install, configure and copy your local bits into
> them if you have, say, Ubuntu at home... so you can bring it all with
> you and use it within Windows at work/school.
>
> As for the downloads, I had forgotten to update the numbers (hadn't
> since soon after the last Portable AbiWord release). It's at 97,000
> now. Add another 125,000 to that by factoring in the number of people
> that downloaded Portable AbiWord bundled with the Portable Apps Suite.
> And I have some USB flash drive manufacturers interested in bundling it
> pre-installed on their hardware, too.
>
Wow. That is so great to hear.
Thanks John!
Martin
> Regards,
> John
>
>
>
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