Hi, I am an OpenOffice user myself and I do agree with this. Startup is slow, and it hogs the system just for simple office productivity. Maybe KOffice or GNOME-Office are better choices for getting things done more easily. But GNOME-Office lacks a presentation software, so it appears less complete as a replacement for MS Office.
Anyway, the writings are all on the wall. See Performance Analysis of OpenOffice and MS Office by George Ou. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=120 Disclaimer: I'm not pro-Microsoft, nor am I a staunch open source supporter; I'm just a typical user who use whatever works, and which gives me the results with the least pain. My laptop has both closed source MS Visual Studio and open source Eclipse, MS Office and OpenOffice and I code in both C#.Net and Java. Perhaps I have split personality problem to contend with. :) Regards, Goh, Yong Kwang Singapore ----- Original Message ---- From: Stephan M. February <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: slugnet <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 8, 2007 9:34:04 AM Subject: [Slugnet] OpenOffice Bloat Hello I've gotten quite fed-up with OpenOffice at this point. My problem: I get spreadsheets with pricelists from my suppliers in MS Excel format. Opening these in OpenOffice can easily grind on for five minutes, and end up consuming well over 200Mb of RAM. A test to try and save this .xls as an .ods to "clean it up", resulted in 100% CPU utilisation and 800Mb of RAM being eaten before I xkilled the process. I'm now using Gnumeric, which is *so* unbelievably snappy compared to OpenOffice. Anyone faced this same problem ? Cheers Stephan _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
