RE: [SLE] OO: If you can make it, I can break it!
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 21:23 -0500, Patrick Freeman wrote:
Excel in Windows on the same PC opens instantly, even on cold boot. So does Lotus123 and the spreadsheet app in Wordperfect Office (I never use it, can't remember the name).
1) M$ spends a lot of time to make you think the system is up when it is not yet complete. To their credit, some functionality becomes available very early even though not everything is ready. Any app written with their development tools will likely take advantage of the same kind of early partial availability -- or see 2).
I mentioned the other office suites specifically for this reason. Even with the quickstarted (which should give OOo the same advantage), it still takes a good while longer than any other office suite to start. Heck, Word/Excel even starts faster through Crossover Office than OpenOffice does. Which pretty much eliminates the OS aspect of the argument, doesn't it?
2) Windows loads a lot of bloat (even right in the operating system kernel) -- which means a lot of stuff, libraries, etc ... is pre-loaded and all you are doing is starting a thin interface to it. Doesn't change the fact that OOo starts slow. I really don't care what they do to make it faster. On my notebook OOo takes 8 seconds to display the spash screen, and another 5 seconds from there to bring up the Writer interface. That is unacceptable.
Hans, that DOES seem slow. What version of SUSE/SuSE are you using? Also what are your general specs? As I mentioned in my email, OOo takes about five seconds to go from click to typing on Write. I think it is about the same on Calc. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:29, Kai Ponte wrote:
Doesn't change the fact that OOo starts slow. I really don't care what they do to make it faster. On my notebook OOo takes 8 seconds to display the spash screen, and another 5 seconds from there to bring up the Writer interface. That is unacceptable.
Hans, that DOES seem slow.
What version of SUSE/SuSE are you using? Also what are your general specs? As I mentioned in my email, OOo takes about five seconds to go from click to typing on Write. I think it is about the same on Calc.
Jeez... I wish I had your problems, either of you... I have an Athlon 1.1 GHz with 3/4 Gig of memory and 7600rpm hard disks. Running SuSE 10.0, KDE 3.5. I just went to the "K" menu, "Office > Word Processor > OpenOffice.org Writer". It took almost exactly 30 seconds for Writer to open (the splash screen appeared at 12 seconds), finish populating the toolbars, and give me a text-entry cursor in a new (empty) document. If I had done the same with an existing small OOo document, it would have taken an extra few seconds to get the document opened. If I had clicked the OpenOffice Suite instead, it would have been much longer even than 30 seconds. Kevin
elefino wrote:
It took almost exactly 30 seconds for Writer to open (the splash screen appeared at 12 seconds), finish populating the toolbars, and give me a text-entry cursor in a new (empty) document. If I had done the same with an existing small OOo document, it would have taken an extra few seconds to get the document opened.
If I had clicked the OpenOffice Suite instead, it would have been much longer even than 30 seconds.
I just opened it in less than 12 seconds on an Athlon XP 1700 & 512 MB, on SUSE 10.
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 17:43 -0500, James Knott wrote:
elefino wrote:
It took almost exactly 30 seconds for Writer to open (the splash screen appeared at 12 seconds), finish populating the toolbars, and give me a text-entry cursor in a new (empty) document. If I had done the same with an existing small OOo document, it would have taken an extra few seconds to get the document opened.
If I had clicked the OpenOffice Suite instead, it would have been much longer even than 30 seconds.
I just opened it in less than 12 seconds on an Athlon XP 1700 & 512 MB, on SUSE 10.
Three seconds to the splash screen and 10 to be able to start typing. HP ML330G3 with one XEON 2.6 CPU. Takes 15 seconds on my 1Ghz p3 laptop w/ 256M ram. Both with quick start running. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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