Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-08 Thread Andrew Brown
:19 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed Ubuntu install is the same, if using the default install options it creates the swap partition (at least equal to installed RAM amount), and then then one partition for all. I change this and like many here, create

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-08 Thread Andrew Brown
This is to what I have noticed by many who become anal retentive in this matter, and obsessive compulsive, over their possessions for want of a better word. I see it in the way they buy their worldly possessions from cars, to HiFi, to mobile phones, to their homes and it's contents. All of it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Davies
:)  From: Andrew Brown andre...@icon.co.za To: Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2013, 10:30 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed This is to what I have noticed by many who become anal retentive in this matter, and obsessive compulsive, over

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Davies
@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2013, 8:43 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed Sorry typo, meant to read 100GB not MB. Allowing for anything FAT coming along. Andrew Brown On 07/08/2013 10:18 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I tend to make / around 10-15Gb now

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Andrew Brown
Ubuntu install is the same, if using the default install options it creates the swap partition (at least equal to installed RAM amount), and then then one partition for all. I change this and like many here, create the root / (100MB), and the balance of the drive capacity to /home, keeping my

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Tom Davies
: Andrew Brown andre...@icon.co.za To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 8:19 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed Ubuntu install is the same, if using the default install options it creates the swap partition (at least equal to installed RAM amount

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
:) From: Sina Momken digi...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk; Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 22:41 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
, 7 August 2013, 8:19 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed Ubuntu install is the same, if using the default install options it creates the swap partition (at least equal to installed RAM amount), and then then one partition for all. I change this and like many here, create the root

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Sina Momken
: Sina Momken digi...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk; Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 22:41 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed I also think that start up

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Tom Davies
: Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 12:45 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed Just to give you a bloat alert.  My Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system, after all of its updates and upgrades from the repository

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Werner F. Bruhin
On 07/08/2013 15:18, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) My guess is thatUbuntu created an 11Gb Extended Partition purely to put the 11Gb Swap in. Not quite sure why it did that but the installer tries to make sure your system stays reasonably flexible for the future Swap is just about on all systems in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
Yes, there are a lot of people who can give others proof of what their system can do. Either by an active demonstration or via benchmark packages. I love doing active presentations to non-believers. I have taken and proved that LO can do things that I claim, by bringing my laptop[s] to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
stays reasonably flexible for the future Regards from Tom :) From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 12:45 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed Just to give you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Ken Interesting, I'll need to do some more intense reading of the web page, a nice find. The chart is a bit congested, and they don't seem to cover the freeware versions of the payware versions on the chart, and the ones I mentioned below. It would be interesting to see where they fare

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Looks like they get a lot of snow Regards from Tom :)  From: Andrew Brown andre...@icon.co.za To: Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 20:28 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Sina Momken
I also think that start up time for LO Writer and MS Office and many other programs is small enough. But opening an empty document in under 3 secs is not a huge win too! I believe that LO Writer is catastrophically slow in opening heavy documents. For proving my claim, I've done some experiments.

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Sina You have supplied good info for LO, on your system, but I would like to point out a few issues I see why your system with LO could be slow. Your laptop was launched in May 2007 and discontinued a year later, so five to six year old technology, not completely fair to put the blame at a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
2013, 22:41 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed I also think that start up time for LO Writer and MS Office and many other programs is small enough. But opening an empty document in under 3 secs is not a huge win too! I believe that LO Writer is catastrophically slow in opening heavy

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Sina Momken
On 08/07/2013 03:00 AM, Andrew Brown wrote: Hi Sina You have supplied good info for LO, on your system, but I would like to point out a few issues I see why your system with LO could be slow. Your laptop was launched in May 2007 and discontinued a year later, so five to six year old

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
:) From: Andrew Brown andre...@icon.co.za To: Sina Momken digi...@gmail.com Cc: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk; Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 23:30 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Sina Momken
@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 22:41 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed I also think that start up time for LO Writer and MS Office and many other programs is small enough. But opening an empty document in under 3 secs is not a huge win too! I believe that LO Writer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 22:41 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed I also think that start up time for LO Writer and MS Office and many other programs is small enough. But opening an empty document in under 3 secs is not a huge win too! I believe that LO

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Ken Springer
On 8/6/13 1:28 PM, Andrew Brown wrote: Hi Ken Interesting, I'll need to do some more intense reading of the web page, a nice find. The chart is a bit congested, and they don't seem to cover the freeware versions of the payware versions on the chart, and the ones I mentioned below. It would be

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Sina Momken
Brown andre...@icon.co.za To: Sina Momken digi...@gmail.com Cc: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk; Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 23:30 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed Hi Sina You have

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Sina Momken
; Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 22:41 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed I also think that start up time for LO Writer and MS Office and many other programs is small enough. But opening an empty document

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
@global.libreoffice.org Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 3:09 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed On 08/07/2013 05:43 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I would expect that .doc would load slower in Writer and .odt would load slower in Word. The question

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 2:44 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed On 08/07/2013 04:00 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Even so that is not really all that low spec.  It's actually qite respectable compared to a lot of systems at my work or other places

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Doug
On 08/07/2013 01:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) If you have your /home on a separate partition then it might be possible to install the 64bit version of Ubuntu without disturbing your 32 it version. I tend to use a 10-15Gb partition for / for Ubuntu. It doesn't really need all that much