OpenOffice.org is generally considered the flagship of productivity programs in the open source world, but it’s not the only choice for many standard productivity tasks you need to get done from day to day.

I’ve looked at alternative word processor AbiWord previously, in a round-up of many different alternatives to OOo, but today I want to look at it in a lot more detail, and go through what makes it different from Writer.

First of all, AbiWord is designed from the ground up to be cross-platform, and consequently exploits the features of each platform it can run on much better than OOo is capable of, even now. I’ll be looking at AbiWord on Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

For Linux users, installation should be a simple case of going to your package manager and searching for abiword and installing. For other platforms, downloads are available from here.

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