Doesn't anyone here have any experience or background on using OOo with as small a system as possible or with small systems?
Hal On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > When OpenOffice states that 512 MB is a minimum requirement for operation and > that 1 GB is preferable, just what does that mean? > > For example, if I'm running Linux and have a 512 MB system, a certain amount > will be taken up by the desktop environment and other background tasks. So > does it mean OOo needs 512 MB to itself, or that it should find enough of > what it needs on a 512 MB system? > > I have a system with 512 MB and I'm running OOo from the command line (with > Java, so it can receive documents, convert to a PDF, then send them back), > and there's no desktop environment, that I'd be okay if, at the same time, I > had several Perl programs running? > > How about if I used a 1 GB SD RAM card as a hard drive and created a swap > file on it? Would that slow it down too much? > > The reason I'm asking is that I'm going to have to change my entire setup > with my clients and, instead of doing all the processing on a server in my > home office, I'm going to have to put embedded systems in my clients' > offices. So far I've found something that runs Debian Linux (meaning I can > get all the packages I need for it), but it only has 512 Flash RAM and 512 > RAM, but I could add a 1 GB SD RAM card, save some files I need on that and > create a swap file. > > I don't need this to run at lightning speed, but it'd be nice if a headless > version of OOo, without the X Server running, could be given a document, open > it, and save it as a PDF in a few seconds. > > Am I looking at something utterly impossible here, or is it possible I could > do this with several Perl scripts and MySQl running on the same system at the > same time? > > > > Hal > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
