On Tuesday 18 September 2007 09:04:04 pm NoOp wrote: > On 09/18/2007 06:46 PM, Howard Coles Jr. wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 05:37:44 pm James Knott wrote: > >> Those who have Lotus Smart Suite files may be interested in this. As I > >> understand it, it's Smart Suite updated to work with ODF. > >> > >> http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa > > > > However, be prepared to give it some room LOTS of room. > > > > The install requires around 480 MB and the download itself is 223 MB! > > (for Linux that is). > > I think the Windoze install is 133 MB. > > > > Why the space difference? I have no idea. However, I have installed it > > on a slower single proc WinXP machine with 512 MB RAM and it is SLOW to > > say the least. > > <http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/product_faqs_normandy.js >pa#4> What are the client system requirements? > > * Lotus Symphony supports both Microsoft Windows® and Linux® platforms. > > Note: Be sure your system meets these client system requirements: > > * Supported Windows platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista > * Supported Linux platforms: SLED 10, RHEL 5, Redhat5 > * 900MB disk space minimum > * 1GB RAM memory minimum <=== note > * US English locale > > Maybe they are trying to keep up with Vista :-) >
Yea, I saw the min reqs. I decided to try it any way, you know someone was going to and then complain and gripe and moan. So, I just thought I'd let them know before they tried, that it was indeed very, very SLOW. Oh, and it works fine on my Kubuntu desktop despite the above. Well, as well as it works in Windoze anyway. It is very beta software. I found it did try to use a lot of that 1 GB. In my Vista setup it took about 100 MB with a few Docs loaded. I'm sure if I had gotten fancy with presentations, and spreadsheets it would have gone higher. Apparently when its loading, or loading a function it goes higher. For those looking to open Lotus Word Pro Docs, it does well for anything that was saved with the latest version of LWP. It chokes on anything I have that was saved before Y2K. Which is OK because I still have LWP installed and I will open and save those docs. I tested this (opening Word Pro docs) on Kubuntu (worked less of the time) and Windows Vista (worked more but not all the time). The problem is that when you open a LWP doc with IBMSym the formatting isn't quite right. No worries, if you just do a save, or save as and save it as an ODF file, you can then open it with OOo and it looks good. It appears this beta has problems with tabs. Also the Text properties box on my Linux setup didn't do right. It was wider than the max space allowed and so I had to scroll back and forth to see all the text and paragraph properties. This could be a Gnome Font in KDE thing. It is Gnome Centric it appears. > > I'm downloading the Linux version now to try on my DualCore Laptop w/2GB > > of RAM. We'll see how it goes. > > > > The interesting thing about this package is that it harps back to the > > StarOffice 5.2 days. If any of you have been around long enough to > > remember the single window in which all your docs, etc. opened, you'll > > quickly recognize Symphony. > > I still have the 5.1 CD :-) I tossed my 5.2 CD once OOo came out ( build 648 pre 1.0 release was when I started with it, or at least I think that was the build number). -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
