Been using Wine in Belanos for a couple of years ... namely with PSI-Plot, a very stable Windows App which I have been using since it ran on DOS 6.22.
PAI-Plot is a spreadsheet program that is integrated with a mind-boggling set of mathematical and graphical plotting applications on which I depend. First clue: After installing Flidas in dual-boot mode next to Belanos (different partition, of course) I noticed that my usual sort of one column of data in the raw access file for one month of my domain in LibreOffice Calc running in Belanos stalls, but in LibreOffice Calc (5) in Flidas the same sort is blindingly fast. Second clue: After sorting the raw access file and separating a tiny portion (150kB out of 60MB) I found that I could upload the .XLS version of the saved separate data from LibreOffice Calc into a PSI-Plot spreadsheet, but that in one column some of the cells were empty and that in another column most of the cells were empty. The dubious cells had contained mixes of text characters and arabic numerals. Third clue: Thinking that the dual boot installation of trisquel_7/_8 might be the cause of these errors, I restarted the laptop with the external 1.0TB USB-connected hard drive running _only_ Flidas. Then I installed Wine using apt-get and installed PSI-Plot with wine from the original PSI-Plot CD disk, which went OK. But after opening the small separate raw access data file in LibreOffice Calc (still version 5) and saving it again as an .XLS file, when I tried to open that .XLS file in PSI-Plot, I got an "out of memory" error right at the beginning of the conversion. Fourth clue: The laptop has plenty of memory: When I make panoramic images from as many as two dozen megabyte digital images, Panorama runs great, using all the memory, raising the temperature of the CPUs to about 90C, and never crashes. It would seem that memory management is the issue ... and it has come to pass since I started upgrading the various hard drives to run Flidas. The internal hard drive of the laptop has the dual boot Trisquel OS's, but the external USB-connected hard drives are running just Flidas, because that installation replacing existing Belanos installations did an excellent job of managing all the various applications. I don't mind if LibreOffice Calc has been irreversibly changed by updates of the Belanos installation in the dual boot configuration, but I'm surprised that the clean installation of Flidas in the single boot external hard drive is not managing RAM. Maybe I should reboot after using LibreOffice Calc to prepare the .XLS version of the small separated raw access spreadsheet and see if that releases some memory. George Langford
