also sprach Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.07.1843 +0100]: > I'm not the OP, but I will present a reason: If you're on an older > machine (<550MHz), or have less than 128MB RAM, or haven't tuned your > hard drive to utilize DMA and other features that speed access, > OpenOffice.org is a real pig to use.
Well, M$ PowerPoint isn't any better with the configuration. > My main machine is a 366Mhz Celeron. Until this summer, I had 96MB in > it, and hadn't tuned my hard drive. OpenOffice (and StarOffice) were so > slow and took so many resources as to be virtually useless. (Compare > this to ApplixOffice, which loads in a matter of seconds and uses less > memory than Galeon, and you can see which Office suite won me over.) I will have to check it out. -- Please do not CC me! Get a proper mailer instead: www.mutt.org .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The public PGP keyservers are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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