On 12/12/06, Dinesh Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:25, jtd wrote:
Then a friend comes along and shows the aweful loading times that OO.o
has, the occasional page alignment mismatch in .doc files and also
installs a pirated copy of Adobe distiller which puts a nice shiny PDF
converter icon in M$ Word. The person never gives OO.o a second
thought...
oh did I read aweful loading time? I never saw that happening in the
recent versions.
I think openoffice is pritty fast and stable right now.
ubuntu 6.10 comes with one of the best versions.
and I wont be surprised if debian 4 (can some one tell me when is it
being released?) also ships the same or even a better version.
I wont mind even if people use the windows kernel and desktop. I am
not saying that switch to linux from day one after I show what
crapware windows and its company gives or even for that matter most
non-free software gives. but there is no harm in using open office,
gimp, and other such tools, isn't it? once we realise the power of
these tools, and once we know that they are not some strange "time
pass " experiments done by students or "hackers", I don't find any
reason to use tools like office.
really I am surprised to here that open office is still slow. I was
doing a demo of the linux based screen reader in the lug last sunday,
and on a 256 mb average machine the spreadsheet and the word processor
came up in pritty much the same time as $office would take. and don't
forget I was using a screen reader that consumes a lot of resources.
so I will request all other people to kindly check the information
they post and correct me if I am wrong.
regards.
Krishnakant.
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