
See below for instructions on installing AbiWord on your computer. For this reason AbiWord is the default word processor in the Ubuntu derivative Xubuntu. AbiWord is, when compared to full-featured suites like OpenOffice, a very light-weight word processor. While AbiWord is a powerful word processor capable of many different word processing tasks, it is not installed as default in Ubuntu, since Ubuntu uses the potent OpenOffice instead.
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In fact, it is the official default GNOME word processor, and is a part of the free office suite GNOME Office, while remaining a standalone application. AbiWord is a free, well-featured, cross-platform word processor and part of the GNOME Project.
