[geeks] OpenOffice released for Irix

[Frank Van Damme]

On Sunday 11 May 2003 03:58, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Wow... I have a 700MHz Athlon with 512MB of RAM... running Slackware
> Linux 9 and OO's swriter takes over 15 seconds to start up the first
> time.
>
> I find it awfully slow myself.
>
> I also hate having to make the metric/english settings in a half-dozen
> different places.  It's configuration is a little bit funky.
>
> Still it does make for a M$ Office replacement, and I'm really glad it
> is moving to other platforms.

I just hope Koffice becomes useable one day. (btw I compared recourse usage in 
comparison to MS Office on win2k box some time ago; comparable parts of 
koffice take roughly 1.5 times the ram of those of MS office.)

> I'm going to have to get a friend of mine to try it on his Irix
> machines.  
>
> My Sun's are too slow for it.

Or OOo is too slow for your suns ;-)

> Oh... what machine are you running OO on?

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