If you tweak openoffice to use less ram, simple On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:57 PM, John Zoidberg <zohn.joidb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Slightly off-topic: > > >> 3. Gnome office is a light office suite but very poor, Open Office is > >> heavier but is a real working tool. > > I do 95% of my 'office' work with Abiword, Gnumerics, Osmo and xpad. > Only rarely do I require OOo, and usually that is to import some Excel > spreadsheet.were somebody has used some dubious technique to achieve > something that can be done in a simpler way. > > > > That reminds me: I had problems switching between openoffice and > gnumeric. One of them couldn't import the format of the other. > Furthermore, there were big problems with the date format (DD/MM/YY > and MM/DD/YY). Some kind of conflict between the system locale > settings and the app settings. > I'll have to analyze things a bit and make a bug report eventually. > > On-topic: > I use both Chromium and Firefox. (Firefox+noscript+private mode for > banking for instance) > My main problem is that weave/sync and xmarks are unusable on my old > laptop. They just completely hang everything when syncing. > Firefox also tends to slow down the system sometimes. > For browsers, seamonkey (default in Puppy Linux) could also be a good > default choice. > Other candidates might be midori, arora, epiphany. > > As for office stuff, I prefer OpenOffice, even if it takes more time > to start. Especially after all the problems I had with portability of > the gnumeric format and date formats. > However, the goal of Lubuntu is to be lightweight, so it makes sense > not to include it. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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