web kracked wrote:
I just put OOo on a 200MHz 196Meg Ram Windows 98se machine
that was a spare going to someone who just wanted to have something
very basic.
Yes OOo 2.x is slow on such a machine and MS Office 97 is faster
but MS 97 was written for Win 95 and Win 98 was even faster.
OOo 1.x is a good choice, but 2.x has the Open Document format
and with smaller drives the ODF is much smaller than MS DOC formats
Also remember that MS not longer supports Win 98 or Office 97
but we have - that this system shows - a good support system
for OOo.
And for the Win XP people
Try to use Office 2003/XP
talk about slow and hoggy packages
(both CPU and document File Space)
The only thing I use it is for Publisher
now if Ooo creates a version of that, I wil be set
----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnny Andersson"
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Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Windows 98 users
>
I run Open Office w/ 98SE on my computer with ASUS mobo and AMD 1.2 gig
Athlon, and 256 MB RAM.
I also run it on an identical computer running Fedora Core 4. It is
just
as fast, or slow on either computer.
It runs much slower than Office 97 PRO on my windows machine.
Someone said that MS Office is 10-100 times faster than OpenOffice. I
have
Windows 98 (first edition) and OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 on a 450 MHz
Pentium 2
with 256 MB SDRAM. A couple of years ago I had MS Office 97 installed
and I
agree. Office 97 was at least 10 times faster on my machine, probably
100
times is closer to the truth in my case (probably depending on a lot of
things). I tried OpenOffice.org 2.0 and it worked on my Windows 98
system,
but it was even slower than OpenOffice.org 1.1.5.
I use Ver 1.1.3 on windows. You might get an older version if you have
an older computer.
I have used 1.1.3, 1.1.4 and 1.1.5 with Windows 98 and I didn't
notice any
difference in speed between them, so I would at least upgrade to
1.1.5. I
don't know about 1.1.4 and older versions, but 1.1.5 can read open
document
files. You can edit the files, but if you want to save the changes
you have
to save as another format, such as SXC, SXW, Word, Excel, RTF etc.
Best regards
Johnny
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remember that MS not longer supports Win 98 or Office 97
What Support?!
In spite of no support, and the fact that Office 97 PRO was designed for
95, It still out performs Open Office on Win 98, 98SE. Win 98 and Office
97 are so far below the horizon that you are not much of a target.
Office 2000 might work as well w/98, But I have no experience w/that
combo. I presume that you could do all the updates while they are available.
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