See also: Minimalist text editors

• Rough Draft - A nice, lightweight text editor capable of being run off a USB stick. Also, download Wordweb to get thesaurus and spell-check functionality. It will integrate with Rough Draft.
• Open Office - a complete office suite
• Writer's Tools for Open Office
• Star Office - a commercially supported version of Open Office
• ABI Word - nice, low-overhead word processor
• Jarte - a free word processor based on the Wordpad, integrates with Wordweb
• Write Monkey - A minimalist text editor like Dark Room, but with a wider array of features. (thanks, Joshua!)
• Ultra Edit - A very well rounded text editor with features built for those frustrated with the writing and editing limitations of the more standard programs. Bonus for web design is the ability to do column edits!
• Atlantis - is an innovative word processor carefully designed with the end-user in mind. A perfect companion for a wide range of word processing tasks, from simple to complex. A stripped down version of MS-Word, using the best features of Word, combined with some unique features of Atlantis!

• Write Room
• Nisus Writer
• Scrivener-this is more a writer's IDE than a word processor, but it does have a pretty nifty word processor
• Open Office-This complete office suite is also available for Macs.

• Rough Draft - A nice, lightweight text editor capable of being run off a USB stick. Also, download Wordweb to get thesaurus and spell-check functionality. It will integrate with Rough Draft.Rough Draft will run in Wine in Ubuntu 7.10
• Open Office - a complete office suite
  • Writer's Tools for Open Office
• Star Office - a commercially supported version of Open Office
• ABI Word - nice, low-overhead word processor

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