Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
On 12/02/11 01:37, Graham Lauder wrote: than MSO on XPSP2. Why are you still on SP? (Or is that a typo?) If you ARE on SP2 then you will have had NO security updates since July last year -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 19:22, adept techlists - kazar wrote: The per capita GDP in that chart for Ethiopia, for example (there are 15 countries with lower GDPs) is $1,000. Once you take into account the rich/poor divide that is rapidly growing wider in all non-socialized countries, the vast majority of Ethiopians live on far less than $1,000 per year. Visualize what kind of computer they might have, or might have access to in an internet cafe even in Addis Ababa. And if you put yourself in the skin of someone living in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe ($400 per-cap GDP), Cambodia ($2,000), Kenya ($1,600), India ($3,400) etc ... you'll see that spending $36 on RAM and $40 on a HD and $20 on a burner is truly out of reach for most of the world population. (and one must have a fairly recent model of computer to take advantage of cheap RAM and peripherals, as well) You can't really use those figures to give you a view of what it's really like on the ground in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda etc (all places I've been to , and spent significant time in). Yes there are computers with only 256MB RAM around - but you're not going to be running any modern office suite on these machines regardless of who makes the software. I also would not consider these computers the norm... just old machines that have been recycled and reused... btu taht are being replaced there just as they were in the west. Things are changing rapidly in Africa. Take Kenya for example where 10 years ago, no one had a personal computer except the expat population, and a few of the ultra-rich. Now it's only the very poor who are still lagging behind. The fast growing middle class are all buying laptops - or diaspora are sending machines home to family there. This is something I also see happening in Rwanda and Uganda. The point being... while hardware is relatively expensive in Africa, it's not as harsh as it appears when you only look at the GDP. C. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
At 21:46 11/02/2011, David Nelson wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 21:03, Christophe Strobbe christophe.stro...@esat.kuleuven.be wrote: (*) None of these articles mention LibrOffice, although the review says: developers are falling away like pine needles from a Christmas tree and competitors are making inroads to its market. Could you please clarify whether it's from the OOo project or LibreOffice project that developers are falling away like pine needles from a Christmas tree? The statement comes from a review of OpenOffice.org 3.3; it is about OpenOffice.org. Although the reviewer must be aware of LibreOffice, I found it strange that he doesn't mention any of the OOo competitors by name. You didn't give any link to the article you were referring to, and a search for libreoffice on the Linux Format site returned nothing, otherwise I would have read for myself. I simply bought the printed edition. By the way, the cover DVD contains neither OpenOffice.org nor LibreOffice. Best regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Twitter: @RabelaisA11y --- Better products and services through end-user empowerment www.usem-net.eu - www.stand4all.eu --- Please don't invite me to Facebook, Quechup or other social networks. You may have agreed to their privacy policy, but I haven't. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
On 14/02/11 09:42, C wrote: Possibly by tweaking the options. You can get a significant startup time decrease by adjusting a few things. For example, go to Tools Options Memory and reduce the Graphics cache and memory per object. Eh? You get a faster startup time by INCREASING memory per object! -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 14:44, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 14/02/11 09:42, C wrote: Possibly by tweaking the options. You can get a significant startup time decrease by adjusting a few things. For example, go to Tools Options Memory and reduce the Graphics cache and memory per object. Eh? You get a faster startup time by INCREASING memory per object! I meant to type change in that spot :-) I'll leave it up to the user to experiment which way works better for their needs. C. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
On 2/12/11 2:04 PM, Robert Derman wrote: Just so you all know, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM can now be purchased for $36. on the internet. In historical terms, that is indeed dirt cheap. and how much would it cost to have that RAM shipped to Ethiopia? and how many computers around the globe are still in use that have a max of far less ram than 4GB, even less than 1024MB? Also a 500 GB hard drive can now be purchased for less than $40., and a DVD burner for less than $20. Your ISP is in River Falls, Wisconson, U.S.A. The per capita GDP in the U.S.A. according to 2010 CIA World Factbook charts was $47,400 USD. (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html) The per capita GDP in that chart for Ethiopia, for example (there are 15 countries with lower GDPs) is $1,000. Once you take into account the rich/poor divide that is rapidly growing wider in all non-socialized countries, the vast majority of Ethiopians live on far less than $1,000 per year. Visualize what kind of computer they might have, or might have access to in an internet cafe even in Addis Ababa. And if you put yourself in the skin of someone living in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe ($400 per-cap GDP), Cambodia ($2,000), Kenya ($1,600), India ($3,400) etc ... you'll see that spending $36 on RAM and $40 on a HD and $20 on a burner is truly out of reach for most of the world population. (and one must have a fairly recent model of computer to take advantage of cheap RAM and peripherals, as well) kazar -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
adept techlists - kazar wrote: On 2/12/11 2:04 PM, Robert Derman wrote: Just so you all know, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM can now be purchased for $36. on the internet. In historical terms, that is indeed dirt cheap. My point here is that any new computers being built are unlikely to have less than 2 gigs, and most will probably have 4. The memory I quoted here is DDR3, which can't be used in older computers anyway, only brand new ones. and how much would it cost to have that RAM shipped to Ethiopia? and how many computers around the globe are still in use that have a max of far less ram than 4GB, even less than 1024MB? Since nearly all computer parts today are made in The Peoples Republic of China, I doubt that anyone anywhere in Africa would have them shipped from California. There must be retailers in Africa who sell this stuff. Also a 500 GB hard drive can now be purchased for less than $40., and a DVD burner for less than $20. Your ISP is in River Falls, Wisconson, U.S.A. The per capita GDP in the U.S.A. according to 2010 CIA World Factbook charts was $47,400 USD. (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html) I am a retired computer system builder and my sole source of income is a government pension, so my income is a small fraction of that amount. The important thing as I see it is that 30 years ago the least expensive computers cost at least $1500. Today it is less than $300. Even while most everything else costs 2 to 3 times what it did 30 years ago. Another thing, and I am not saying that it is a good thing, but I have noticed that new software tends to be written for new computers. Most older computers end up running older software because they can't handle the requirements of most newer software. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
On 13 February 2011 18:22, adept techlists - kazar techli...@ade.pt wrote: On 2/12/11 2:04 PM, Robert Derman wrote: Just so you all know, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM can now be purchased for $36. on the internet. In historical terms, that is indeed dirt cheap. and how much would it cost to have that RAM shipped to Ethiopia? and how many computers around the globe are still in use that have a max of far less ram than 4GB, even less than 1024MB? Also a 500 GB hard drive can now be purchased for less than $40., and a DVD burner for less than $20. Your ISP is in River Falls, Wisconson, U.S.A. The per capita GDP in the U.S.A. according to 2010 CIA World Factbook charts was $47,400 USD. ( https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html ) The per capita GDP in that chart for Ethiopia, for example (there are 15 countries with lower GDPs) is $1,000. Once you take into account the rich/poor divide that is rapidly growing wider in all non-socialized countries, the vast majority of Ethiopians live on far less than $1,000 per year. Visualize what kind of computer they might have, or might have access to in an internet cafe even in Addis Ababa. And if you put yourself in the skin of someone living in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe ($400 per-cap GDP), Cambodia ($2,000), Kenya ($1,600), India ($3,400) etc ... you'll see that spending $36 on RAM and $40 on a HD and $20 on a burner is truly out of reach for most of the world population. (and one must have a fairly recent model of computer to take advantage of cheap RAM and peripherals, as well) If you are living on $1 a day, MS Windows is about 2 months pay with no discretion at the margins. No wonder that software gets copied illegally. This also demonstrates the myth that this causes the equivalent lost revenue of $50-$60 for each illegal copy. The fact is that if it was impossible to copy many of those doing the copying would not afford to buy it so there would be no additional sales. (I'm not condoning illegal copying of software, just pointing out some facts about it :-) ) Open Source is important to inclusion and so is reducing hardware costs as far as possible and making education and training as low cost and as freely available as possible. kazar -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications The Schools ITQ www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
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Hi, :-) On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 16:14, Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com wrote: to read the article you need to be subscribed to the magazine. Thanks, Jonathan. ;-) David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
On 02/11/2011 09:46 PM, David Nelson wrote: Could you please clarify whether it's from the OOo project or LibreOffice project that developers are falling away like pine needles from a Christmas tree? Developers are falling from OOo, and in fact the community version has lost not only LibreOffice developers but also the Oracle developers who have been switched to Oracle Cloud Office. It is difficult to know how many of them, and I think that the deveopment cycle of OOo 3.4 will tell how many. You didn't give any link to the article you were referring to, and a search for libreoffice on the Linux Format site returned nothing, otherwise I would have read for myself. If I remember well, the articles are open to everyone after a couple of weeks from the date of publishing. -- Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com Mobile +39.348.5653829 VoIP: +39.02.320621813 Skype: italovignoli -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
Kevin Hunter wrote: At 4:09pm -0500 Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2011-02-11 3:35 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote: How the quickstarter works is have use gobs of memory effectively sitting idle. That doesn't work. Many of us in the computing, engineering, physics, and chemical fields *use* our computational resources. 75MB is not 'gobs' - that or we live in very different realities. Yes, it is gobs. If you have 4GB+, perhaps it's not, but not everyone has 4GB+. Particularly in non-Western countries. I have just returned from Ethiopia, for example, where owning a computer is rare; for those who do, 256 MB is common. I suspect that we *do* live in different realities. RAM is extremely cheap these days. If $100 bucks is cheap to you, then so be it. It's not to me, a graduate student. Just so you all know, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM can now be purchased for $36. on the internet. In historical terms, that is indeed dirt cheap. Also a 500 GB hard drive can now be purchased for less than $40., and a DVD burner for less than $20. The fact is, a copy of MS Office can well cost more than the entire computer system it is used on. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
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On 12 February 2011 19:04, Robert Derman robert.der...@pressenter.comwrote: Kevin Hunter wrote: At 4:09pm -0500 Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2011-02-11 3:35 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote: How the quickstarter works is have use gobs of memory effectively sitting idle. That doesn't work. Many of us in the computing, engineering, physics, and chemical fields *use* our computational resources. 75MB is not 'gobs' - that or we live in very different realities. Yes, it is gobs. If you have 4GB+, perhaps it's not, but not everyone has 4GB+. Particularly in non-Western countries. I have just returned from Ethiopia, for example, where owning a computer is rare; for those who do, 256 MB is common. I suspect that we *do* live in different realities. RAM is extremely cheap these days. If $100 bucks is cheap to you, then so be it. It's not to me, a graduate student. Just so you all know, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM can now be purchased for $36. on the internet. Yes, but for people in some places you would have to use older more expensive RAM or the machine can't be upgraded so they would have to buy another, etc etc. In historical terms, that is indeed dirt cheap. But in historical terms the majority of people in the world haven't been able to access computer technology. That changes as prices fall and probably for every $10 fall another million can enter the market. So even small changes can have a significant effect on large numbers of people. Also a 500 GB hard drive can now be purchased for less than $40., and a DVD burner for less than $20. The fact is, a copy of MS Office can well cost more than the entire computer system it is used on. Not if it gets illegally copied. ;-) PS, hard drive space is likely to be less of an issue than RAM. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications The Schools ITQ www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
On 11/02/11 13:03, Christophe Strobbe wrote: 1. Improve the loading speed. 20. Once more: faster loading. I really don't know how they can say that. On Windows 7, Open Office 3.3 loads a new Writer document (with Quickstarter enabled) almost INSTANTANEOUSLY, on Ubuntu 10.04 it's just under 4 seconds - only because unlike Windows there's a bug with the quickstarter. How fast do they WANT it to load? Both those times compare VERY favourably with MS Office and in fact on Windows OO is FASTER then MS Office for the above reason. Of course ANY document in ANY Office suite will load in longer times depending on the size and complexity... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
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Hi, :-) On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 21:03, Christophe Strobbe christophe.stro...@esat.kuleuven.be wrote: (*) None of these articles mention LibrOffice, although the review says: developers are falling away like pine needles from a Christmas tree and competitors are making inroads to its market. Could you please clarify whether it's from the OOo project or LibreOffice project that developers are falling away like pine needles from a Christmas tree? You didn't give any link to the article you were referring to, and a search for libreoffice on the Linux Format site returned nothing, otherwise I would have read for myself. David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2011 13:03, Christophe Strobbe wrote: 3. Implement grammar checking. This is one of the most requested features for OOo. It also has been available since OOo 1.1.3, for half a dozen languages. In all instances, you are better off using _The King's English_, or equivalent, for the language that is being grammatically checked. If users are willing to have a database that consumes 50GB per language, then grammar checking that will pass an A Level exam can be included in LibO. Granted, a lot of grunt work needs to be done, but no fundamental changes need to be made to any of the currently existing grammar checkers for LibO, or OOo. jonathon - -- If Bing copied Google, there wouldn't be anything new worth requesting. If Bing did not copy Google, there wouldn't be anything relevant worth requesting. DaveJakeman 20110207 Groklaw. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNVaE7AAoJEERA7YuLpVrVT78IAOHrb5enyipzC081wToaov+e nzzdGoG9x34MAy75CJEnAdHm2Zvp0S7JgHrfJNYiXdLAhUi7uf+cK6NborxBRRSt pkSTR5qKXFKdxOskfGxQOpjRrr0ZevN4leYsh8Q5JGls/N2oCHPTrY83Fl1sHP++ b0BGhp3oPrajQPx59hAjSEHhjqBHEqomHSSYoNOEn80n9LB+nOt9jVQU9f35Ap/+ hhOKs1nU/g/biVswVelyJQjO0rwvjbzaLzYLPYLtxVzLo0LYkPWBg3BmK+5DQ/I0 J9VvZ5j4OrGbiXhvompE8J+Kn+PiwQ7Q0YFR6WKdiFUN4WjeMnxlH+BOSpG91ec= =Mkh7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
On 2011-02-11 3:35 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote: How the quickstarter works is have use gobs of memory effectively sitting idle. That doesn't work. Many of us in the computing, engineering, physics, and chemical fields *use* our computational resources. 75MB is not 'gobs' - that or we live in very different realities. RAM is extremely cheap these days. The short answer is that the quickstarter doesn't count: I want it to load as fast or faster than MSO /without/ the quickstarter. MSO can do it, from a cold boot, fast. Why can't LO? Strawman... MSO *does* have a quickstarter, but it is invisible - hidden in the OS startup processes... -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
Hi Kevin! Am Freitag, den 11.02.2011, 15:35 -0500 schrieb Kevin Hunter: How fast do they WANT it to load? Both those times compare VERY favourably with MS Office and in fact on Windows OO is FASTER then MS Office for the above reason. The short answer is that the quickstarter doesn't count: I want it to load as fast or faster than MSO /without/ the quickstarter. MSO can do it, from a cold boot, fast. Why can't LO? Because we are more or less platform neutral and that requires (under the given circumstances) to rely on own code that has to be loaded. Microsoft Office can share many of the components with the operating system - that's a bit easier. Consequently, it will be hard to be fast as Microsoft Office, but there is potential - for sure :-) And for those who are interested to dig a bit deeper: http://uxopenofficeorg.blogspot.com/2009/04/openoffice-user-survey-2009-performance.html And: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Performance Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
On Saturday 12 February 2011 09:35:59 Kevin Hunter wrote: At 8:24am -0500 Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Gordon Burgess-parker wrote: On 11/02/11 13:03, Christophe Strobbe wrote: 1. Improve the loading speed. 20. Once more: faster loading. I really don't know how they can say that. Because they don't know how to eloquently say that the quickstarter is a no-go. The name quickstarter is a misnomer. It should be preloader, because that's what it actually does. (But that doesn't sound as sexy, I know.) How the quickstarter works is have use gobs of memory effectively sitting idle. That doesn't work. Many of us in the computing, engineering, physics, and chemical fields *use* our computational resources. Start up time is down to the the OS. I used to think the same as you. However this is what I have found. Start up on Ubuntu Gnome box is slow, slower than XP startup. OpenSuSE KDE4 box again slowish but like the others not gruesomely slow. But on my Yoper KDE4 box ,cold start up is almost instant and certainly faster than MSO on XPSP2. Yoper is a distro optimised for speed so obviously the problem is not all in the OOo/LibO code On Windows 7, Open Office 3.3 loads a new Writer document (with Quickstarter enabled) almost INSTANTANEOUSLY, [...] How fast do they WANT it to load? Both those times compare VERY favourably with MS Office and in fact on Windows OO is FASTER then MS Office for the above reason. The short answer is that the quickstarter doesn't count: I want it to load as fast or faster than MSO /without/ the quickstarter. MSO can do it, from a cold boot, fast. Why can't LO? MSO has a quickstarter in it's integration with the OS. Compare the speed of MSO opening in Windows environment as opposed to Apple and Apple has a very fast GUI Cheers, Kevin -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
At 4:09pm -0500 Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2011-02-11 3:35 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote: How the quickstarter works is have use gobs of memory effectively sitting idle. That doesn't work. Many of us in the computing, engineering, physics, and chemical fields *use* our computational resources. 75MB is not 'gobs' - that or we live in very different realities. Yes, it is gobs. If you have 4GB+, perhaps it's not, but not everyone has 4GB+. Particularly in non-Western countries. I have just returned from Ethiopia, for example, where owning a computer is rare; for those who do, 256 MB is common. I suspect that we *do* live in different realities. RAM is extremely cheap these days. If $100 bucks is cheap to you, then so be it. It's not to me, a graduate student. The short answer is that the quickstarter doesn't count: I want it to load as fast or faster than MSO /without/ the quickstarter. MSO can do it, from a cold boot, fast. Why can't LO? Strawman... MSO *does* have a quickstarter, but it is invisible - hidden in the OS startup processes... Please point me to documentation of this hidden quickstarter. The MS version that I'm aware of is this program: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290144 It's called Osa, and is an optional component to run at startup. If you want to argue the relative startup times, please try it for yourself, both with the Osa running, and without. If you still get different results than these, then all I can say is that we must have dissimilar test methodologies; I can confirm this relative speed on at least 6 boxes of varying age and hardware capabilities. On one particular 4 year-old machine, with 1G of system RAM, and without the OOo Quickstarter or MS' osa program running, rebooting for each trial, and opening the same 2003 Word (.doc) document: MSO 2003: 8s (average of 3 boots) OOo 3.3: 17s (average of 3 boots) Regards, Kevin -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
At 8:37pm -0500 Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Graham Lauder wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2011 09:35:59 Kevin Hunter wrote: Because they don't know how to eloquently say that the quickstarter is a no-go. The name quickstarter is a misnomer. It should be preloader, because that's what it actually does. (But that doesn't sound as sexy, I know.) How the quickstarter works is have use gobs of memory effectively sitting idle. That doesn't work. Many of us in the computing, engineering, physics, and chemical fields *use* our computational resources. Start up time is down to the the OS. I disagree. More on that below ... I used to think the same as you. However this is what I have found. Start up on Ubuntu Gnome box is slow, slower than XP startup. OpenSuSE KDE4 box again slowish but like the others not gruesomely slow. But on my Yoper KDE4 box ,cold start up is almost instant and certainly faster than MSO on XPSP2. Yoper is a distro optimised for speed so obviously the problem is not all in the OOo/LibO code In a mathematical sense of all I already believe it is not entirely the fault of OOo/LO. However, I need more information before I will accept this particular bit of anecdotal evidence. For starters, /how/ did the Yoper folks get such an increase in speed for OOo? Why have I -- so far -- been unable to recreate these results on my own machines (which range from old to fairly new, and run a variety of distros)? To be clear, I'm not denying that I may be wrong or have out-dated information, but at the very least I'm surprised I haven't seen a blog or other such advertisement of how they did it. I would think it a matter of pride for whoever pulls it off, others would want to know, and I consider myself fairly well informed. The short answer is that the quickstarter doesn't count: I want it to load as fast or faster than MSO /without/ the quickstarter. MSO can do it, from a cold boot, fast. Why can't LO? MSO has a quickstarter in it's integration with the OS. Compare the speed of MSO opening in Windows environment as opposed to Apple and Apple has a very fast GUI I *hate* using MSO on Mac because it is so egregiously slow (even after loading is finished!). However, I'm not convinced that it's not just an issue with MS libraries. Reference this article about Windows Firefox being faster than Linux Firefox, as run through Wine: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/browser-benchmarks-2-even-wine-beats-linux-firefox We're a full two years later at this point, I may have missed an intervening few test updates, and things may have improved in this particular case, but the point is that it's not a simple matter of OS integration. I think OS integration is a red herring, and I would claim a poor tactic for the LO community to maintain: You're only faster because you've better OS integration. More honest, I think, is You're right, we don't start as fast; but give us time, we're working on it. And, if you're following the devel list, we are. Cheers, Kevin -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011
At 5:03pm -0500 Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Christoph Noack wrote: Am Freitag, den 11.02.2011, 15:35 -0500 schrieb Kevin Hunter: The short answer is that the quickstarter doesn't count: I want it to load as fast or faster than MSO /without/ the quickstarter. MSO can do it, from a cold boot, fast. Why can't LO? Because we are more or less platform neutral and that requires (under the given circumstances) to rely on own code that has to be loaded. That makes sense. Thank you for this honest recognition of the performance issues with a cogent explanation of cross-platform maintainability as the reason. I hope (and believe) there are gains to be had in this area. Cheers, Kevin -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
