On Mon May 06, 2002 at 12:15:29PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > "Jamin W. Collins" wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2 May 2002 23:53:58 -0700 > > "Jaye Inabnit ke6sls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Has anyone been able to get openoffice.org (via the debs) installed and > > > running on a Woody Intel box? > > > > Installed it yesterday on my Woody box. Just needed to installed java and > > all was happy (see earlier thread regarding this topic for information on > > the java installation). > --------------------REPLY------------------------ > Does the .deb installation improve on the loading/operating speed? The > last 638c tarball is very slooooow.... Also can you do a .net install > with the .debs? > What, are you on drugs or something? Come on man, are you pullin' my leg or what? It's a pig. A bloated, stuck pig. I see no problem with the operating speed, but the loading speed sucks. I find it astounding, amazing, and utterly flabbergasting that: -They removed the email client (which I never used anyway) -They removed the calendar (the main reason I use StarOffice) -They removed the file manager -They removed the "integrated desktop" (which I, obviously an oddball, happen to like. I might be the only person in the world who does. But I leave StarOffice running, it's on its own desktop, there are certain things I do with it, I don't have to wait for it to launch since I just leave it running...)
after all this, the damn thing takes forever to launch. You might as well run down to Starbucks and back while you're waiting for that one. I have been using StarOffice 5.2 for several years, and am quite happy with it. I suppose I will eventually move to some combination of Evolution, Gnumeric, Abiword, etc. I have been quite impressed lately with Abiword's ability to open M$ Word files. But it's still not as good as StarOffice, which itself is not perfect. One can only dream of a day, in some perfect future world, where this will no longer be an issue. -- -CraigW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
