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Re: PCLinuxOS .93 Big Daddy? "The Full Monty", Says TuxMachines.org

__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 23 August 2006 13:55 \__

> B Gruff wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 12:02 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> [Many apologies for crossposting]
>>> 
>>> PCLinuxOS 0.93a - The Full Monty
>> 
>> Ah - thanks for that (the link, not the x-posting!)
>> 
>> The guy does say:-
>> 
>> "Back by popular demand is the full suite of OpenOffice.org. PCLOS Big
>> Daddy ships with the complete version 2.0.3. Is it just me, or does this
>> thing seem to open faster than ever? My first OpenOffice.org app of
>> oowriter opened in 2 or 3 seconds here and then the others opened almost
>> instantaneously. ...And gorgeous gorgeous fonts!"
>> 
> 
> It does open fast because once any part of OO is opened, then they is
> nothing much to load for other parts, if you press File->New->DocType for
> example all it does is create a view of which ever part of the app you
> asked for, because it already has all of the functionality of the suite to
> hand, so it is as fast as the shell at creating a window.
> 
> I tend to be popping in and out of Star Office most of the day in fairly
> short bursts, so I just keep at least one part of it open, it isn't wasting
> resources worth talking about.

The same applies to Thunderbird and Firefox (e.g. keep one browser windows or
a compose screen open to keep the runtime alive in memory). Surely, this
would be harder to digest for those who haven't embraced virtual desktops*.
Our friends at Redmond like to keep people uninformed, unproductive and
underdeveloped.

Best wishes,

Roy

*Minimised applications lead to clutter, but admittedly, memory limits are an
issue too. 

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