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On 26/06/98, 22:22:17, Lawrence Sayre
Is StarOffice 4.0 as slow on yours system as on mine? Granted it works well, but it takes about a minute just for the opening StarOffice screen to show up on my system, which has a Matrox Millenium and a Cyrix P200+ processor. Nothing else is even near as slow.
I just timed the launch of Soffice on my PP200MMX w/128MB RAM and a 9ms screaming EIDE matrox HD. It took ~18 seconds. I had a lot of problems with this product when I was using it to write a rather long paper. The biggest problem was figuring out how to use it. The help files are rather cryptic. Another problem I had was with the wysiwyg fonts. I recently applied the sp3 to my install and have not had that problem since. There was the dreaded PS/2 bug that seems to have been fixed. Another big PITA was that the indices for TOC, index, and page numbering quite often got mixed up. There are some nice features in this product. As a mater of fact I am writing this mail with Soffice. I'm not sold or unsold on it. I like the approach the company uses toward development and support. They are a bit weak on follow-through, at least on the English side. There seems to be no documentation on the product written in English. The cross platform nature of the product is VERY attractive. I guess one can get that with WP as well. I believe that Applex is also cross platform. I ran the test version of Applex for a while. It seemed pretty well put together. The drawing tool was really sweet. I am not really sure where to invest my efforts as far as office suites go in Linux. I like Soffice and I hope it continues to grow. Linux users certainly can't beat the price. Steve - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e