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GNU - The prosject was started in 1984 to develop a completely free Unix-like operating system, the GNU system. GNU stands for "GNU is Not Unix".

Most of the command based applications you find in Zeta are ported from this project.
If you are interested in reading more about this project, please visit http://www.gnu.org.

The GNU Public License (GPL) can be found here.

Abi Word

Zeta comes with both Gobe Productive (a complete office solution) and Abi Word (an advanced word processor).

Abi Word is a cross platform project. It is open source, and versions excists for Windows, Linux, QNX, MacOS X and for Zeta (BeOS).

The word processor is intuitive to use and has the same basic features as Microsoft Office. If you have been working on Microsoft Office, Corel Word Perfect, or any other word processor with a graphical user interface. If you are used to keyboard oriented word processing systems, Abi Word can, as with most of the applications in Zeta, be controlled with several shortcut/commands.

Accessing Abi Word's features can be done in three ways, from the toolbar by clicking the various icons, from the menu bar above the toolbars and from context menus. For example, you can save your work by clicking File in the top menu bar and see a menu with Save and Save As options along with New, Open and Print. But you could also save the latest changes in your document by moving the mouse to the diskette icon (which means Save) or to the diskette with a pencil icon (which means Save As).

To concentrate on writing, you can easily remove most of the menus in Abi Word by choosing View and then Full screen; only the menu bar on top of the screen will then remain.

You can change the tabs and margins from the menus or, even better, direct by adjusting their bars and pointers along the edges of the document.

If you are to write a newsletter for an organization or for your job, or publish a flyer, you can easily choose between one, two or three columns in the document.

Adding pictures to the documents is easy, simply click on the landscape icon in the toolbar and navigate to the folder containing the picture, choose it and add it. A tip is to add the pictures at an early stage of writing the document, and then write arround the images.

One of the best things with Abi Word is saved for last: Abi Word supports a range of file formats. It has it's own, but can also read and write Rich Text Format, Word documents and OpenOffice document, making it easy to share your thoughts and writings. And in Zeta you can also print it to a PDF file.

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