Hi all,
I know it's been a while, but I finally got around to installing StarOffice. I
am not real impressed with it on a performance level. Even though SO says it
will run with 32Mb, I don't really suggest trying this. I really hate having
everything swap when I change applications. This is on a P-233, under KDE,
which is itself a bit of a memory hog, but not near so bloated as StarOffice.
I have only 64Mb at home, if I had 96Mb, I might try it to see how it responds
when it can fit itself into memory.
WRT the installation process, it creates a temporary directory in /tmp, which
could cause problems if you have /tmp on a small separate partition. My /tmp
is 100Mb, and it worked OK, even though SO said that it needed something like
135Mb of space on /tmp.
Anyway, for now I'll be sticking with LyX for word processing. I'll be looking
into word2x, which converts word documents into LaTeX and HTML.
(http://www.word2x.alcom.co.uk). I can't imagine needing to PRODUCE word
documents, and a cursory seach for programs which convert INTO word has yielded
no result, so I guess no one else has had the need either.
Simon
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Matthew Sayler wrote:
>I've been expiramenting with SO 5.0 on a modestly beefy machine
>at work (K6-2@350, UDMA drives, 64MB PC-100 SDRAM, Debian).
>
>I've not really used it for much so far (I really don't need a
>WP for my own use thanks to TeX and friends[1]) but I thought
>I'd post a few quickie-pros-and-cons.
>
>pros:
> Free for educational (and all non-profit?) use
>
> Seems to read Office 97 documents with no problems. I had some
>trouble reading something from a Mac, but I'm not even sure what
>type of .doc it was .. Note this includes modeslty complex
>PowerPoint presentations created in Office97.
>
>cons:
> Slow to load / generally feels unresponsive
>
> Font remdering is unimpressive (yes, this is really an X problem :/ ).
>
>Anyone like to comment? I'd especially like to hear of concrete problems
>people have had e.g. reading SO docs from Office or vice-versa.
>
> Matt
>
>[1] LaTeX and LyX sometimes, to be specific
>
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