Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows??????????? and comments about Linux practicality

2001-05-15 Thread tazmun
- From: Lee To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows??? Hi Taz, Wanna ask ya,if you don't mind, what would you reccomend instead of star office ? k-office perhaps ?? Just curious..and thank you. Lee star

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Jeffrey M. Reed
i'm glad this is a newbie list or i would have to FLAME you to death. heh heh. linux, is better in overall DESIGN than the Windows OS as far as memory management and less-likely-to-crash goes. support for linux? not so hot. quite simply, it's not a commercial product so it's not going to get

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Lee
Hi Taz, Wanna ask ya,if you don't mind, what would you reccomend instead of star office ? k-office perhaps ?? Just curious..and thank you. Lee star office? CRAP. quite simply. why are you using it? that's what you really need to think about man. it does SOME things really nice but other

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Michael D. Viron
You might want to try Open Office instead--supposed to be somewhat better performance than star office. Latest release is 6.27, I believe Michael At 01:09 PM 05/14/2001 -0700, Lee wrote: Hi Taz, Wanna ask ya,if you don't mind, what would you reccomend instead of star office ? k-office perhaps

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
Greetings, I am a StarOffice user. Once it starts up it is quite responsive. Moreover it has great M$ office import filters. It is also quite feature rich. If you bypass the plash screen at startup you save a couple of seconds. With KDE/GNOME you have several desktops. So, what I do is

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Lee
I've never heard of Open Office ? Will go in search however..thank you. Lee You might want to try Open Office instead--supposed to be somewhat better performance than star office. Latest release is 6.27, I believe At 01:09 PM 05/14/2001 -0700, Lee wrote: Hi Taz, Wanna ask ya,if you don't

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 14 May 2001 05:27, tazmun wrote: Hi all.just a quickie question that has been bugging me. I was under the impression that the Linux OS was a more efficient program then windowsbut the only 2 programs I have for true comparison since I run them on both OS's is Star Office

Re: [newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-14 Thread Michael D. Viron
Take a look at http://www.openoffice.org At 04:37 PM 05/14/2001 -0700, Lee wrote: I've never heard of Open Office ? Will go in search however..thank you. Lee

[newbie] Star Office and Netscape start faster in windows???????????

2001-05-13 Thread tazmun
Hi all.just a quickie question that has been bugging me. I was under the impression that the Linux OS was a more efficient program then windowsbut the only 2 programs I have for true comparison since I run them on both OS's is Star Office Netscape 4.7. The windows OS unfortunately