I've run it with 128 MB on a 133 MHz PII, but that was under Debian and
RedHat. It was slow, but acceptable for my parts. It was also OOo 1.1
The MIT $100 Laptop will be very important. Whether OOo runs on it
poorly, tolerably or quite well will make a big difference in the future
of OOo.
If they have a decent linux distro they would be able to run Abiword or
other faster word processors anyway so is not like people will get locked
out.
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:06:22 -, Lars D. Noodén
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I've run it with 128 MB on a 133 MHz PII, but that was under
On 11/16/05, M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 09:44:02 AM -, Alexandro Colorado
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Many people had run OOo on 64Mb of Ram. So no worries about this.
You're kidding right? OOo is really slow with twice that RAM.
It is slow, yes, but it
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 11:18 +, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
If they have a decent linux distro they would be able to run Abiword or
other faster word processors anyway so is not like people will get locked
out.
This is a very good reason why OOo30 should be focussed on making the
code
Then again, many drawing and database programs are available at a relative
small size. Scribus might be a bit too big, but inkscape/sodipodi are
small enough. This are not small by any means, averaging 10mb, but they
are smaller even all of this put together.
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:56:09
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 13:29 +, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Then again, many drawing and database programs are available at a relative
small size. Scribus might be a bit too big, but inkscape/sodipodi are
small enough. This are not small by any means, averaging 10mb, but they
are
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Ian Lynch wrote:
Use Xara on Linux now its being Open Sourced. Its the fastest vector
graphics tool of professional quality out there.
Taking a guess at which package you mean I found a web site talking about
being in the very early stages of begining to port to Linux and
Ian Lynch wrote:
Use Xara on Linux now its being Open Sourced. Its the fastest vector
Xara is Open Source, but is very far from a working version on Linux.
graphics tool of professional quality out there. Its a pity it could not
Indeed, their renderer is very fast. Some people at Inkscape
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:24 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
Ian Lynch wrote:
Use Xara on Linux now its being Open Sourced. Its the fastest vector
Xara is Open Source, but is very far from a working version on Linux.
We got it to open :-)
be integrated with OOo in place of Draw, that would
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:24 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
A real difficulty for integration would be file formats, as Xara does
not use and does not plan to use OpenDocument Format and the widget set
(WXWidgets for Xara)
Sounds like a good project for OD Fellowship. An ODF to
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 06:06:22 AM -0500, Lars D. Noodén
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I've run it with 128 MB on a 133 MHz PII, but that was under Debian
and RedHat. It was slow, but acceptable for my parts. It was also
OOo 1.1
Here, running 2.0 on 192 MB Ram and Fedora is still too slow. And I
Is OOo2 likely to run comfortably on those specs?
Or will it need to be pared down and streamlined for OOo3 first?
-Lars
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:07:50 -, Lars D. Noodén
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Is OOo2 likely to run comfortably on those specs?
Or will it need to be pared down and streamlined for OOo3 first?
Many people had run OOo on 64Mb of Ram. So no worries about this.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:44, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:07:50 -, Lars D. Noodén
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is OOo2 likely to run comfortably on those specs?
Or will it need to be pared down and streamlined for OOo3 first?
Many people had run OOo on 64Mb of Ram. So no
i saw this in the WSJ, this project has been going on for some time,
but this was the first i had heard about it. wonder what they will use
for word processing and spreadsheets?
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The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality
By STEVE STECKLOW
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Rei Shinozuka wrote:
i saw this in the WSJ, this project has been going on for some time,
but this was the first i had heard about it. wonder what they will use
for word processing and spreadsheets?
Hard to say without seeing the specs for this computer, but is possible
for OOo to be too
And of course, Bill Gates will subsidize the first 640 KB of RAM! ;)
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:16, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
i saw this in the WSJ, this project has been going on for some time,
but this was the first i had heard about it. wonder what they will use
for word processing and
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