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Matt Smed wrote:
>
> I have not tried Siag Office, but I am curious at what 
> (if any) office suite people would recommend for BL users?

For the Wordprocessor, I recommend AbiWord.

> I currently have AbiWord and XSpread working on my 
> (486 8mb ram) laptop, but, although Abiword is easy 
> to use, I cannot figure out Xspread.  

If you installed the xspread package from Slackware, it 
should have have put documentation (including a tutorial) 
in /usr/doc/xspread.

If xspread is slow on your 486, I suggest you try sc
(/slakware/ap1/sc.tgz).  It is a CLI spreadsheet (but
you can run it from an xterm if you wish).

> It would also be nice to have a lightweight X based email 
> client for BL2.1 as well. 

Sylpheed is the email client I use on BL2.  It works fine.
I'm using version 0.8.11 which (I think) I got from one
of the sites listed on the "Where do I get add-ons" page.

> I cannot get Sylpheed to install for some reason, 

The package I used needed to be installed with installpkg
(or pkgtool).  Also, it needs the GTK libraries (they are 
in /slakware/gtk1/gtkglib.tgz).

> I am also thinking of upgrading my ram to 20MB from 8MB 
> -- will this make X run a lot faster?

Yes.  

Cheers,
Steven