Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird & ka7-100]

[Austin L. Denyer]

> All this about Star Office got me curious, so I timed it:
>
> System:
> AMD K6-3, 400
> Asus p5A-b
> RAM = 192 (64 + 128 )
> HDA = WD 13.6GB
> HDB = WD 30.7GB
> SWAP = 128mb
> OS = SUSE 6.4 - "Practically Everything" option (HDA is almost full)
>
> So, from starting to move the cursor to the KDE panel icon to Star
> Office fully up was:  20.3 seconds.
>
> Still, I firmly believe in one fundamental law of computing:
>
> There's no such a thing as too much hard drive space or too much RAM.

I would give you exact times for mine, but I recently re-installed Linux
and have not bothered to re-install StarOffice.
I do remember from previous timings that from clicking on the icon to
being able to use it was 3 or 4 minutes.  It took 60 seconds just to get
the splash screen...

Regards,
Ozz.