In the office where I work the office admin (who uses office software every day, unlike me who hardly touches it these days) has ooo3 aqua stable release installed on a current Intel iMac, with 1GB of RAM and has had various stability problems. The problems include slowness, the whole app completely freezing after being running for some time, and weirdness with margins when printing which are mac specific [I did file a bug for this problem since it was easily reproducible]. Just before Christmas I added an extra 1GB of RAM, so we'll see if this helps. Unfortunately I don't have the time to try and diagnose where the problem is coming from, nor can I sit there installing new dev versions very two weeks (unless it is a simple update process through the sparkle framework or similar).
The co-founder of the company I work for has found that he too has had problems on on machine constantly, but not as many on another machine. He is not happy with the amount of support time required for OpenOffice. So much so he is even contemplating just spending some money on MS Office for the Mac for that particular machine. I am wondering if there is an issue with using ooo with a small amount of RAM, or whether the preferences are being corrupted really easily, and then not being able to fix themselves. Asking users to delete their preferences doesn't make them happy! Shaun -- Thanks, Shaun McDonald, --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
