Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1587 mails)

[mperry@xxxxxxxxx (Michael Perry)]

Thus spake Kaare Rasmussen (kar@xxxxxxxxxx): 
> 
> 1. Why doesn't LOS99 include a startup diskette? How will people
> install if they don't have DOS, Win95 or a bootable CDROM-drive?
> 
> 2. Can it run in 32 MB of RAM? The box says minimum 16MB, but that
> doesn't sound realistic. What is the most realistic number?
> 
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I used yast to install the components from the Office 99 cd.  My system is
a P166 classic with 80mb of memory.  Applix is pretty snappy on that
system. I would have to be honest and say that 32mb may be somewhat slow.
I think though that the applix applications are somewhat designed for
modularity and may be good at stretching threads out.  I used to use an
OS/2 word processor called DeScribe that did the same.  It spun threads
out for several processes like printing, spellchecking, etc.

I dont believe you need a bootable diskette if you have a working linux
system.  Just run yast with the Office 99 cd in place.  I assume that all
the packages on the Office 99 cd are in rpm format; so other ways would
work as well.  I would like to pitch to SuSE that they consider a
installation routine that would make use of yast for Office 99.  Perhaps
running a setup script would launch yast or something?  You could include
on the cd label, please run setup on the cd disk 1.

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Michael Perry
mperry@xxxxxxxxx
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