> Hmmm....
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> I'm afraid my love affair with Linux is beginning to wane.?
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> After finding that the spellcheck in OpenOffice was failing to work (despite Hunspell being apparently installed), and that the OoHelp was giving me blank pages, I decided to install Abiword.? This looked promising until I tried to Print or PrintPreview whereupon Abiword self-destucted into nothingness.
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> I'm running Zenwalk 6.0
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> My wife's needs are to be able to run a?basic wordprocessor, do emails and internet.? These would, I would have thought, be pretty universal requiremants.? The fact the Zenwalk can't seem to be able to do this is worrying.
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> Is it now time to give up on Linux and 'ask Bill'?
Hi Ben, sorry to hear of the problems you've been having with your Linux distro.
I'm posting not to delve in to the root cause of your problems but to
convince you to try the latest Ubuntu, in fact if you wait until next
Thursday a landmark Ubuntu release will be out which promises to be
the best yet.
http://www.ubuntu.com/
As James and Isaac have said it might very well be hardware. If it is
an older PC then hard disk, memory or motherboard might be at fault.
If you download and install an Ubuntu CD then I recommend you choose
the "run without install" option as a test to see if you like it and
that it plays nicely with your PC - this will load Ubuntu into memory
and allow you to run things like OpenOffice by default.
I didn't know about Zenwalk until your post and it's home page says
"Modern and user-friendly (latest stable software, selected
applications)". This is also one of Ubuntu's strengths and after your
experience with Zenwalk I understand if you might be cynical but
please give it a try.
For several non-techie family members I have set up PC's with Ubuntu
9.10 to do "basic wordprocessor, do emails and internet" and they are
happy.
I'm 100% positive that Ubuntu will "save the relationship" you have
with Linux :-)
Regards,
Imran
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