On 08/31/2010 07:21 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
I'd normally 'Ctrl-R' the above... but won't so that you might consider wrapping your email client to a reasonable 72 char or so. I run OOo on my test systems all the time with Ubuntu (8.04, 9.x, 10.04, and 10.10) and one system only has a 1Ghz processor w/384MiB of ram. OOo 3.2.x seems to run just fine (for me). A system I gave to a college student with 1.7Ghz processor and 640MiB w/Ubuntu 8.04 a few years ago is still putting her through college (she is a writing major) - with OOo. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
