Phil Driscoll wrote:
Word processing. I like AbiWord - it does enough and is small and fast, but
Spreadsheet. Currently playing with KSpread and Gnumeric - don't know yet!
I'd say KWord and KSpread, but I am a bit biased ;) RC1 of KOffice 1.1 is going to be announced on Monday, so you might be interested in trying that.
Web browsing. Konqueror seems to be the leanest up to date graphical web browser (with free file manager!)- unless Opera does it better or in less memory.
The biggest drawback with Opera is that you have to pay for it.
Database. I've not yet found anything suitable yet - the school want
TheKompany are prodcuing Rekall. See http://www.thekompany.com/projects/rekall. I believe that the intention was to integrate that into KOffice. I don't know whether that is still the intention.
Vector drawing. I've played with a few packages but still not found anything as good/easy to use as Acorn !Draw (which is what the kid's currently use).
Tried Kontour? (Previously known as Killustrator). -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org