Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Davies
>Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2013, 8:43 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed > > >Sorry typo, meant to read 100GB not MB. Allowing for anything FAT coming >along. > >Andrew Brown > >On 07/08/2013 10:18 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> I te

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-08 Thread Tom Davies
heir work though! Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Andrew Brown >To: >Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2013, 10:30 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed > > >This is to what I have noticed by many who become a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-08 Thread Andrew Brown
This is to what I have noticed by many who become anal retentive in this matter, and obsessive compulsive, over their possessions for want of a better word. I see it in the way they buy their worldly possessions from cars, to HiFi, to mobile phones, to their homes and it's contents. All of it m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-08 Thread Andrew Brown
*Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed Ubuntu install is the same, if using the default install options it creates the swap partition (at least equal to installed RAM amount), and then then one partition for all. I change this and like many here, create the roo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
t the installer tries to make sure your system stays reasonably flexible for the future Regards from Tom :) From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 12:45 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
Yes, there are a lot of people who can give others "proof" of what their system can do. Either by an active demonstration or via benchmark packages. I love doing active presentations to non-believers. I have taken and proved that LO can do things that I claim, by bringing my laptop[s] to t

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Werner F. Bruhin
On 07/08/2013 15:18, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) My guess is thatUbuntu created an 11Gb Extended Partition purely to put the 11Gb Swap in. Not quite sure why it did that but the installer tries to make sure your system stays reasonably flexible for the future Swap is just about on all systems in a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Tom Davies
; From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 12:45 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed > > > >Just to give you a "bloat alert".  My Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system, after all >of its updates and upgrades f

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Sina Momken
s a software and help to make it better. >> >>> I sure was running DeVeDe on 2 different laptops, both as XP/Vista and >>> Ubuntu 10.04/ U. 10.04 systems. >> >> Regards, >> Sina Momken >>> >>> On 08/06/2013 06:44 PM, Tom Davies wrote: &g

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
___ From: Andrew Brown To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 8:19 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed Ubuntu install is the same, if using the default install options it creates the swap partition (at least equal to installed RAM amount), and then th

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
ine them into 1 book at the end. Master documents perhaps? Regards from Tom :) From: Sina Momken To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: Tom Davies ; Kracked_P_P---webmaster ; users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 22:41 Subject: [libreoffic

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Tom Davies
s from Tom :) > > From: Andrew Brown >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 8:19 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed > > >Ubuntu install is the same, if using the default install options it >creates the swap partition (at least equal

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-07 Thread Andrew Brown
Ubuntu install is the same, if using the default install options it creates the swap partition (at least equal to installed RAM amount), and then then one partition for all. I change this and like many here, create the root / (100MB), and the balance of the drive capacity to /home, keeping my d

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Doug
On 08/07/2013 01:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > If you have your /home on a separate partition then it might be possible to > install the 64bit version of Ubuntu without disturbing your 32 it version. I > tend to use a 10-15Gb partition for / for Ubuntu. It doesn't really need all > that m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
t: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 2:44 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed > > >On 08/07/2013 04:00 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> Even so that is not really all that low spec.  It's actually qite >> respectable compared to a lot of systems at my work

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
ffice.org >Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 3:09 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed > > >On 08/07/2013 05:43 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: >> >> I would expect that .doc would load slower in Writer and .odt would

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Sina Momken
t but the docs team write each chapter of the >> guides separately and then combine them into 1 book at the end. >> Master documents perhaps? >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>&

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Sina Momken
Tom :) Hello Davis, Thank you for your suggestion. I also have my /home placed on a separate partition than / partition. However it's not related to this issue :D Best, Sina ;) > > > > > >> ________________ >> From: Andrew Brown >> To: Sina Momken >&g

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Ken Springer
On 8/6/13 1:28 PM, Andrew Brown wrote: Hi Ken Interesting, I'll need to do some more intense reading of the web page, a nice find. The chart is a bit congested, and they don't seem to cover the freeware versions of the payware versions on the chart, and the ones I mentioned below. It would be in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
day, 6 August 2013, 22:41 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed I also think that start up time for LO Writer and MS Office and many other programs is small enough. But opening an empty document in under 3 secs is not a huge win too! I believe that LO Writer is catastrophically slow i

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Sina Momken
avies ; Kracked_P_P---webmaster >> ; users@global.libreoffice.org >> Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 22:41 >> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed >> >> >> I also think that start up time for LO Writer and MS Office and many >> other programs is s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
ack to the one that did work.  Regards from Tom :) > > From: Andrew Brown >To: Sina Momken >Cc: Tom Davies ; Kracked_P_P---webmaster >; users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 23:30 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Sina Momken
On 08/07/2013 03:00 AM, Andrew Brown wrote: > Hi Sina > > You have supplied good info for LO, on your system, but I would like to > point out a few issues I see why your system with LO could be slow. Your > laptop was launched in May 2007 and discontinued a year later, so five > to six year old te

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
documents perhaps? Regards from Tom :) > > From: Sina Momken >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Cc: Tom Davies ; Kracked_P_P---webmaster >; users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 22:41 >Subject: [libreoffice-user

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Sina You have supplied good info for LO, on your system, but I would like to point out a few issues I see why your system with LO could be slow. Your laptop was launched in May 2007 and discontinued a year later, so five to six year old technology, not completely fair to put the blame at a

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Sina Momken
I also think that start up time for LO Writer and MS Office and many other programs is small enough. But opening an empty document in under 3 secs is not a huge win too! I believe that LO Writer is catastrophically slow in opening heavy documents. For proving my claim, I've done some experiments. A

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Sina Momken
Can you please put your conversation about Anti-Viruses and Contraceptive Pills on another forum or at least another thread? On 08/07/2013 12:07 AM, Andrew Brown wrote: > Well said > > Andrew Brown > > On 06/08/2013 09:10 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> I've not had any problems with AVG so fa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Looks like they get a lot of snow Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Andrew Brown >To: Ken Springer >Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 20:28 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Ken Interesting, I'll need to do some more intense reading of the web page, a nice find. The chart is a bit congested, and they don't seem to cover the freeware versions of the payware versions on the chart, and the ones I mentioned below. It would be interesting to see where they fare aga

[libreoffice-users] Re: start up speed

2013-08-06 Thread Ken Springer
Andrew, Just interested in your comments/thoughts on this site: http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml On 8/6/13 12:05 PM, Andrew Brown wrote: Hi Tom You are on track, but one thing I will give in defence of freeware malware protection, is MS Security Essentials. It along with the MS fir