Quoting Jared Odulio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ok fine, so still, why compare it with Abiword, KWord etc. when it is > more appropriate to compare OpenOffice with another office suite.
Because even when all you want is a word processor, you still load a bare minimum 73 MB. But you insist on a comparison initial RAM consumption by "suites"? OK: OpenOffice.org suite: 73 MB. KOffice suite: 17 MB. GNOME Office Suite, 6 MB. >> Kind of like Java. ;-> > > You're dang wrong! Java only loads the virtual machine and the other > stuff you instantiated in your java app. ...which inevitably seems to end up meaning about 100 MB to actually do anything. Consider, for example, Java MUAs: You load program bytecode into your Java VM. But wait, there's more! Throw in the Javamail class library, JavaBeans Activation Framework, Java XML classes, and probably a bunch more -- all probably proprietary code, by the way. Which seems to be where all that RAM goes. Check for yourself: Try out Grendel, ICEMail, JMail, ENIP, spaces. Those are all Java-based MUAs that you can run on Linux, and all end up being huge and ponderous upon being actually executed. But, hey, at least GNUS users might not think they're too slow and bloated -- if you can convince them to switch to proprietary mailers. -- Cheers, Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
