Someone on the openoffice forum suggested I should cross post this
thread I began to this list as its seen more regularly by the people
that matter.
/Well, it crashed on me again after pressing backspace in one field. The
record was intact after restarting and recovery happened.
I'm running an AMD 64 system, using the debian port 2.2.1 Wed Jul 4
21:17:03 UTC 2007. I just upgraded my rig from a 32 bit system. I've had
my share of problems with the transition, and thankfully my share of
hardware fixes after replacing a ten year old board running hardware it
wasn't meant for. Let me preface this by saying as much as I loathe M$,
I find access to still be vastly superior to OO's base application. If
Access handled ODB files. Heh. Can still dream.
Most of my frustrations have been in OO's base application.
Among them:
/
/Crashes when I double click a column to auto width it, press the
aforementioned delete key, and other random keystrokes.
Column values like formatting of 4 leading zeros to the primary
key or currency formats not retaining. This was fixed when I
aliened the RPMs from OO's site, not the deb apts. Though even
forcing architecture fails with alien. That's out. And I'm either
blind or just stupid, but for the life of me I can't find any news
or downloads on a native x86_64 build anywhere on OO's site. 64
bit applications aren't going anywhere. The transition is
gradually happening. I'd think OO would have adapted with a build
of its own by now.
Reliance on java. 64 bits aside, to have to rely on thirdparty
framework for a database. Java, in my experience, has been buggy,
and extremely unstable with OO base alone. I switch back and forth
from 1.5.latest and 1.6.latest with various states of things
working and malfunctioning.
I know I'm in the minority of users who regularly use OO's base. I
have a master database I maintain for personal things. The
transition from Access when cutting away from windows alone was...
...fun... Someone please tell me 3.0, whenever the hell that is,
will bring me some stability. And sanity./
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