OpenOffice works fine on small documents. I'm working on documents > 800 pages with screen shots and source code listed in with the text. You will find it most adequate for your 20 page term paper.
On Apr 1, 3:34 pm, smr <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, no. I install the updates that get pushed out to me every day, > I don't think I'd be allowed to live it down if I caught an exploit > from an unpatched version of Linux (not to mention I've got a > positively draconian network policy at my university which bans your > MAC address for breaking it, so anti virus and every patch the world > provides as soon as it provides it as a standard operating policy). > Distribution updates are done incrementally on the top of the previous > installation without breaking stride and I aim to upgrade to Jaunty > the day the stable release comes out. > > It was pretty immediately clear that we were talking about different > editions from the outset (you had regular crashes and mine survives > physical bag malfunctions onto pavement and resumes immediately > afterwards) but the differences are vast. I use the regular 32 bit > Ubuntu with a kernel recompiled for my laptop's Pentium M and I also > play pretty free with Compiz plugins, which if it comes from the > supported sources stay working and responsive. It does seem fair > enough to change to another distribution if you want the opposite of > everything Ubuntu wants to provide. > > The x64 is required to address all the memory that OpenOffice needs > comment doesn't fit with my experience - I get by with 1GB and, > firstly, don't use swap but also didn't find OpenOffice would crash > when I was using a 512MB system that did swap. That seems to point to > much more drastic underlying issues than just Cannonical's lesser > adoption of a niche window manager and a relatively, though > increasingly well supported, niche platform. Bearing in mind that > Ubuntu is currently designed around the assumption that you're using > it on something like i386 and with Gnome you've basically decided to > drive upside down on the other side of the road. Suse will probably > work better than Gnome at KDE (since it's the primary system) but will > have a incredibly hard time handling apt. It's a choice you'll just > have to make, my choice of Gnome over KDE dates from the days of Red > Hat Linux, I was turned off by Keramik and simply didn't find it > worked the same way I did and was just operating it rather than > enjoying it. The only application I've found I can't really replace on > Gnome or just download the KDE libs and run that I'd quite like is a > Fuzzy Clock (hardly leading the fight against cancer, tbh) that ties > in the panel and to Google Calendar, beyond that I've been happy. > > The huge success that regular Ubuntu has had has caused an upswell of > debian compatible (and even written-for) software which I currently > can't see changing, it's not dissimilar to how Windows became the > market leader and caused everyone to write for it or get out of the > way. > > On Apr 1, 4:05 pm, yyyc186 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I was running 64-bit 9.01. A 32-bit OS is absolutely useless to me. > > It sounds to me like you turn off (or ignore) the automatic updates. > > That would explain how you are able to be happy. Cannonical has a > > history of releasing updates which are no where near ready for prime > > time. I don't download OS versions. I purchase DVD versions from on- > > disk. They have always been a reliable source. Since one of my > > connections is a satellite with a 300MEG/day limit, downloading an OS > > isn't an option. > > > I also run KDE because Gnome is from a time when programmers lived in > > caves, ate their young, and fouled their own nest. KDE is a much more > > mature front end. If you need to add a font for a document it is a > > menu option. Until recently to add a font in Gnome you had to copy a > > file here, hack a file there, then find a cryptic command line to > > execute so the font would work. > > > Picture a 5 gallon pail sitting on a sidewalk surrounded by grass. > > Cannonical pours water from a one gallon pail into the 5 gallon pail. > > The water in the 5 gallon pail is the amount of resources they put > > into the 32-bit Gnome release. Water which is blown by the wind onto > > the sidewalk is the amount of resources they put into KDE. Any water > > which manages to somehow find its way into the grass is the amount of > > resources they put into the 64-bit edition. > > > I'm guessing you only run the 32-bit Gnome version and you never apply > > the automatic updates. I need to be able to address 8Gig of RAM > > because OpenOffice and other applications don't work when parts of > > them are in the swap file...at least on Ubuntu. In theory I could get > > by with only 6Gig, but why risk it when you can get a pair of 2Gig > > modules shipped to your door for under $50. > > > On Apr 1, 10:07 am, smr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Despite my gut instinct of "obvious troll is obvious" this is fair > > > enough, it sounds like you're either running counterfeit Ubuntu ("you > > > wouldn't steal a car") or a very different edition to me. It's very > > > possible to run an edition of Ubuntu which is so bleeding edge it's > > > still having the kinks worked out and I reckon that's what you've > > > stumbled upon. I'm in the suspend your laptop at the end of the day > > > and open the lid the next and continue until you install the next > > > edition group and that really does work for me. I'm aware that I > > > really can't do anything productive to an operating system that's > > > still in testing, that's just not my area of expertise, but I do know > > > that if I stick to the regular, supported kind of Ubuntu release I can > > > keep it working for about 6 months at a time and that's just because I > > > update my distribution given half a chance. > > > > On 30 Mar, 20:30, yyyc186 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have completed my migration to SuSE and pretty much advise all > > > > others to try it. Cannonical simply had too unstable of a release and > > > > a complete lack of control when it came to cranking out patches. > > > > Those last few rounds of kernel updates were the final straw. > > > > > Gone are the days of 3-5 lockups/crashes per day. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
