On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 1:50 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:48 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > [...] > > > OpenOffice.org 1.0 takes a full minute. > > > > Try it yourself. As you very correctly said, thare are some things for > > which Linux is faster, and some things for which Windows is faster. Now, > > MS Office is a VERY fast set of applications. Even if it's not pre-loaded > > (wine proves it). And OpenOffice.org is a VERY SLOW set of applications > > (regarding startup anyway. Normal operation does not differ........ > > almost) > > [...] > > One full minute? Are you sure you're not exaggerating a little bit? I > don't use OO but use Staroffice now and again and it is slow but it > certainly doesn't take a minute. I haven't timed it yet but I would be > suprised if it actually took more than 20 to 30 seconds tops. > > My system: athlon 1.1Ghz, 128M ram, MDK 9.0. > I timed it.
Athlon 900, 512M ram, Mdk 9.0 OOo 31 sec. from cold to blank document Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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