Errr - I haven't played with the latest version of star office, but if its
anything like the earlier versions, its one of the largest applications I've
ever seen on Linux --- its *huge* - and doesn't use shared libraries. The only
other application that's larger seems to be Oracle.
This means: the more ram the better - I would start with 128MB. Even then, it'll
take a while to load the executable. But once its in memory and running, it
should be fairly responsive - at least on a par with Windows.
--Bruce
Quoting Tom Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have now set up two Linux boxes; a server and a desktop on identical
> Pentium 166s with 32 MB of ram.
>
> I was very impressed with just about everything about the server:
> Apache,
> database, ssh, etc... I was less impressed with the desktop.
>
> I read Bob Spark's paper on Linux in government and got excited when he
> talked about using old 386s and 486s. I must be doing something wrong
> as
> the GUI on my P166 is very slow.
>
> I loaded a standard Red Hat 6.2 desktop installation. I then made sure
> that
> not needed services were not running. I downloaded and installed Star
> Office. The problem is that it is very slow. It takes almost a minute
> for
> Star Office to come up. This is a lot slower than when this machine had
> windows 98 on it with MS Office.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> Am I expecting too much?
>
> If I'm not expecting too much, what can I do to speed up this install?
>
> Tom Laurie
> NH Office of Emergency Management
> Systems Manager
> 603 223-3617
>
>
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