Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Someone who reads COLA has asked me to post the following:
>
>
> One thing the FUD artists on COLA would like to have all believe that
> Windows XP is rock stable and Linux is always crashing. I got a kick out
> of "Oliver Wong's" accusation that his Ubuntu system crashes constantly
> (and therefore he would like others to conclude that Linux is a failure.)
>
> Yesterday, I had several task crashes on Adobe Professional. I was
> printing a large 362 page Adobe PDF into another PDF (essentially a save
> using the Adobe print driver) as 2 pages on one 8-1/2" x 11" page, so when
> I sent it
> to the laser printer, I would only have 91 sheets. (It is a training
> manual
> that the training department sent me. Sometimes they send manuals in PDF
> and let the user print them out instead of supplying in the classroom.)
>
> I have 384 MB RAM on my corporate desktop. I had several spreadsheets
> open in Excel, a Word document, PowerPoint and Outlook open.
>
> Once I closed the other applications, it took about 20 minutes for the
> document to complete the conversion.
>
> Those who complain about the long load times (which are not really long)
> for Open Office, obviously are either trolling or do not use Microsoft
> Office,
> to include Excel. Excel takes about 20 seconds to come up and load a
> spreadsheet.
My Open Office takes 3 seconds to load on an average PC of today.
AMD46 dual core 3800 with 2Gb RAM and I paid <500 pounds
for the machine. The second document opens in under 1 second.
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