AI TouchBook

Always Innovating (AI) sells a a tablet + pluggable keybaord that runs AIOS, Android, Ubuntu, and ChromiumOS for $550 which is open {source, hardware, community}.

goodbye openoffice, hello abiword

I don't often use Word Processors. Instead I edit text. I like emacs for lots of editing and vi for quickly tweaking a configuration file. If I had to make something look nice I'd type set it with LaTeX. However, I have recently been collaborating with people sending me .doc files. I used to save them as text, edit them in emacs, and import them back into openoffice but the overhead from loss of formatting was making it not worth it so I started just using openoffice but the key-bindings were the hardest part; e.g. my muscle memory thinks that Ctrl-f moves the cursor forward and shouldn't open up a Find/Replace dialog. Openoffice refuses to accommodate vi or emacs key bindings but I found that AbiWord does (successfully using AbiWord 2.8.6). Also, AbiWord is smaller than openoffice so it's faster. I didn't have luck changing the key-bindings by just doing what's described on the AbiWord FAQ, instead I got it working as described in a linuxgazette.net mailing list.