Well, I think I have my answer: OpenOffice would appear to require 192-256Meg and (I'm guessing) a 500-600Mz processor to get really snappy response. I put in an extra 128M tonight (total 192Meg) and my startup time dropped from 1 minute to 30 seconds. Screen to screen performance is good, as is opening a new document and printing. Now I can keep sylpheed, mozilla, and oo open at once with no swapping between desktops!
I'm liking this beast more and more. I created a document this morning, saved it on a dos floppy in word97 format, and took the floppy to my WinME machine where it opened successfully. There's a difference in the bullet characters selected, so the Word display looked a little funky, but good enough for government work. So now I can type my daughter's homework without ever leaving Linux! The presentation and draw programs appear to work ok, but flowchart symbols on draw are fuzzy on the screen (especially arrows) and the boxes on the printout are substatially larger than they appear onscreen. I am, however, underwhelmed by the "new html document function"; it works but not much in the way of controls. I can't wait for future releases when (maybe) the'll split up the executables so that you don't have to load one humongous image. This one's a keeper. -- Collins Richey Denver Area gentoo_rc6 xfce+sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
