Wednesday, June 25, 2003, 5:55:47 PM, Anthony wrote: > On 25-Jun-2003/13:04 +0700, Beast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I'm still thinking will light WM (such as windowmaker, fvwm or even >>twm) will help them (arround 200-300 of them are still p233/128MB RAM) >>*if* they have to run evolution, openoffice, mozilla and oracle >>client?? >>Any advice to improve perfomance? (surely i can not drop the gui >>thing)
> I've been using Linux for office work for a year or so on a 1.1GHz/128RAM > box. If I were starting now I'd use Mozilla instead of Evolution. Evo is > an easy app for an Outlook user but it's a serious resource hog. Mozilla > isn't a lightweight, but at least you can do both email and web in a > single app. There is also a calendar add-in for Mozilla that seems to work > okay. I found it adequate but my calendar use is very light. YMMV. > For simple docs, I tend to use AbiWord and save as DOC or RTF. It's *much* > faster than OpenOffice. The versions I've used so far lack support for > tables, but it's coming soon. Unfortunately, most docs (inc. presentation and excel) is not simple, sometime macro and other stuff are (spell checking etc) consider :=( > Depending on your needs, an Oracle client may not be necessary. If there > is a UNIX ODBC driver available for Oracle, OpenOffice can use it to > access data in an SQL database. You can browse and update data, run SQL Its not c/s oracle, but using apps 11i (similar java applet, but runs on oracle owns jvm). Its strange though that oracle did not support it when running in linux (there only jinittiator for win *only*). It *may* runs on sun jdk 1.1 but seems lot of bugs. Thanks! --beast -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
