On Tuesday 31 July 2007 04:55:39 Cyberwuffy Ala Wolfe wrote:

Hi,

>
> 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.
>

>       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./

Unfortunately, my experience of Ubuntu's 64bit AMD OOo version tallies yours, 
irrespective of the module (Calc, Writer, Base, Impress). The 32 bit Ubuntu 
compiled versions also have their numerous (and bizarre) afflictions. You can 
hardly blame OOo for this, blame the Ubuntu developers.

However, I would agree with you that reliance on Java poses a problem for this 
architecture, but this is unlikely to change any time soon, in fact, it will 
probably increase if anything, with the new Report Builder, and other 
extensions being designed using Java or Java components. And yes, it would be 
nice to have reliable 64bit builds of official OOo for Debian, but then maybe 
there just aren't that many people out there building for 64 bit AMD specific 
architectures.

Alex

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