Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (156 mails)

["Adrian Wells" <adrian-wells@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I tried Star Office on Frankenstein-II (P133 in an original, vintage
> PC-Clone box). It took over an hour and a half to install.
>
> Double-clicking the desktop icon resulted in everything going
s-l-o-o-o-o-w
> for fifteen minutes, the frame for the window appeared, and then took
> another eight to fill up with the Star-Office desktop. I couldn't get it
to
> do ANYTHING! (no clunky, there ;) Exit from the program took a further
> twenty minutes.

Wow! And I find it so nice on the SuSE box, thanks for the warning, I was
going to download the PC version, (that alone could take a week!)

You waited 20Mins? :-o , I'm afraid it would have been given the three
finger salute or the reset button long before then :-)


> - On a serious note, SO 5.2 works fine on anything 300MHz and over, with
> plenty RAM (64Meg bare minimum)
Mmmm, Another P233 and 80Meg only - Damn! Now, where's that story I was
concocting to convince the NME about needing another machine?


Kind Regards
Adrian Wells