2008/2/16, Barry Reiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I use OO on my home Linux systems, but unfortunately I am forced to use > Windows at work. I have noticed that OO runs great on 32 bit Kubuntu and > Suse Linux, but on fully-patched 32 bit versions of Windows XP Pro and > Vista > Home premium it starts up and runs much more slowly (crashing occasionally > on XP with multiple instances open). The work machine is a little slower > (P4 2.8 G, 512 MB) than the home machines, but the work machine runs MS > Word > and Excel 2003 just fine.
I think the MAIN reason for why your work machine runs OpenOffice.org a bit slower is that the machine itself is a bit slower. I have XP and Ubuntu 7.10on the same machine and maybe OpenOffice.org runs a LITTLE bit faster on Ubuntu, but not that much. However, MS Office is known to be a lot faster than OpenOffice.org in some cases and just a little bit faster in other cases. I have seen numbers saying that Excel in some cases is 10-100 times faster than Calc, and I actually believe that, because that is approximately also what I experienced myself. That's why I stopped creating gigantic spreadsheets. They were just too slow on my 1.6 GHz, 2 GB laptop. In my opinion, speed is one of the most important issues to work on for future releases, but maybe that's just me… J.R. Being of a suspicious nature where Microsoft is concerned, I think that it > would be interesting if a test were to be conducted using the same > "standard > machine" (not a VM) on both the current OOW and MS Office Word 2003/2007 > startup times, and some standard "benchmark" OOW and MS Word function, on > the following OS's: > > 1) Microsoft Windows XP Pro, 32 bit, fresh install, unpatched. > 2) Microsoft Windows XP home,32 bit, fresh install, unpatched. > 3) Microsoft Windows Vista home "premium",32 bit, fresh install, > unpatched. > 4) Ubuntu/Kubuntu 7.10 32 bit fresh install, unpatched. > 5) Some other distro (Suse/Redhat), 32 bit, fresh install, unpatched. > 6) Microsoft Windows XP Pro, 32 bit, fresh install, fully "patched" (all > current updates on). > 7) Microsoft Windows XP home, 32 bit, fresh install, fully "patched" (all > current updates on). > 8) Microsoft Windows Vista home "premium", 32 bit, fresh install, fully > "patched" (all current updates on). > 9) Ubuntu/Kubuntu 7.10, 32 bit, fully "patched" (all current updates on). > 10) Some other distro (Suse/Redhat),32 bit, fresh install, fully "patched" > (all current updates on). > > In the off chance that my suspicions are confirmed by these test results, > and some of the "patches" being distributed by Microsoft actually seem to > be > intended to degrade or impair OO's perfomance, while sparing the > performance > of MS Office products, I think that this would make for interesting > material > for an anti-trust lawsuit by Sun. >
