Mandrake Newbie wrote: > My subject says it all but I need the comparison between the two based on which is >more memory sucker. I haven't tried OpenOffice 6.0 yet and I'm currently using >StarOffice 5.2 and it's very slow to me. My PC is an Intel Pentium III 800 Mhz, 384 >MB SDRAM, 20 GB Seagate Barraccuda 7200 RPM on Mandrake 8.1.
I can't answer your question but I have some of my own: * When you notice the slow performance, is swap being used? (Check top). I got much improved performance when I added enough memory so swap is not used, although, over time, eventually swap starts being used, then I notice a slowdown and consider a reboot. (With 384 MB I would not expect you are using swap, but I don't know what else you're running.) * I ran StarOffice 5.2 for just a little while. I learned that starting it was a killer (one minute plus to load), but once it was loaded, it didn't take real long to load a specific application (within StarOffice) or document. If I had to run StarOffice regularly, I'd probably keep it open, and just switch there when I needed to do something. (PS: My experience with StarOffice was on a 300 MHz. machine with 128 MB of RAM, StarOffice, except for initial loading was tolerable.) Randy Kramer
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