Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Tony Manco belched out
> this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
>>> this bit o' wisdom:
>>>
>>>> You know your office suite is bloated when..
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | What's worse is this diagnostic took at least 20 minutes to finish on a nice
>>>> | dual-core with 2GB RAM.
>>>> |
>>>> | [...]
>>>> |
>>>> | OpenOffice.org isn't necessarily have a reptutation for being lean itself,
>>>> | but developers are pushing hard to make OpenOffice.org 3.2 the fastest
>>>> | version yet. Stay tuned for more.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.oooninja.com/2009/06/microsoft-office-diagnostics-bloated.html
>>> One hint I found in speeding up the loading of OpenOffice is to make sure
>>> you've uninstalled any fonts you never use (which can include a lot of
>>> foreign-language fonts).
>>>
>> Is 8 seconds from a cold start really that much?
>>
>> ~$ time oowriter
>> real 0m8.196s
>> user 0m0.036s
>> sys 0m0.112s
>>
>> Second time started...
>>
>> ~$ time oowriter
>> real 0m2.019s
>> user 0m0.048s
>> sys 0m0.060s
>>
>> Is it really that slow?
>
> No, not at all.
>
> You ought to see Word running in a Win 2000 virtual machine. Pathetic.
>
btw, I ran this on Ubuntu 9.04 on a P4 3000 Mhz 1 GB ram with 160 GB
7200rpm Sata HD. Old hardware, but works like a charm.
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People say that if you play Microsoft CD's backwards, you hear satanic
things,but that's nothing, because if you play them forwards, they
install Windows.
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