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fsanta@arrakis.es wrote:
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 15:45, you wrote:
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. Why are Linux based office applications so slow? Is there a single answer? Not everyone can afford a P IV with 256MB upon which admittedly all of the above really fly out of the screen!
Cheers, Steve.
In the case of Star Office it is because of that blasted desktop they integrated with it. Those who were around for prior versions can attest it was much faster. If you opened Star Writer by itself it would open probably faster than MS Word. I used to run this on a P200 w/32MB ram. When Star added the desktop the memory requirements skyrocketed. Just loading the subsequent version took 5 minutes on that hardware. It made it completely unusable for me. I eventually upgraded but the load time for SO has been comparatively pathetic ever since. Nicely, Sun is doing away with mode this and has re-modularized the programs. With SO6, Star Writer is a standalone program again and promises much faster load and normal response times. I'm looking forward to it because Word Perfect Office 2000 for linux has been begging for a replacement on my desktop. JHS