The easiest, I think would be to go the route of easy-debian. Look for the package and its author, Qole, on another thread. The package is easy to install (doesn't disturb your existing environment) and let's you have access to some key apps such as OpenOffice... and Qole has gone a long way to create a very useable environment. The distributed easy-debian-image does not include Abiword, but it is easy to add it on (v2.6.4). If you tablet is an N810 then you are set up with the hardware keyboard... if on an N800 then the Nokia Hildon keyboard *doesn't* work and you have to use the kludge of another virtual keyboard... but again Qole's package provides for that. Once OpenOffice has loaded, and that is the slow part, the actual editing and input is done relatively quick.

A newer project on Qole's menu is easy-mer. It's based on Ubuntu jaunty. And it has the virtue that the Hildon Virtual Keyboard works with most GTk+ based apps... OpenOffice 3 included (with a Gtk+ plugin). How about Abiword (v 2.6.6) here? Unfortunately not, it's prone to crashes and cpu loops so it is a total waste in this environment. OpenOffice in contrast works great and is, at the moment, the only option for capable word processing on the tablet.

Hope that helps you,

--denis