Re: [MLUG] winpoison, Mandrake 8.1, and OpenOffice

[Ian Monroe <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I havn't tried OpenOffice, but I've been using StarOffice 6 Beta and is
nice and does a good job of converting from Word, though I have not tried
anything too complicated yet.

I would guess the StarOffice would work really slow on a 166. SO 6 is kind
of slow (when compared to KWord) on a Pentium II 300. From this, infering
that OpenOffice would be slow on a 166 would not be too unfair.

Ian

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Matthew W. Ross wrote:

> I am probably under their effects, but I do find Office 97 works better
> than most other office packages under windows or any other O/S.  
> 
> On that note, anyone have good/bad luck with OpenOffice?
> As soon as I get my old 166 emptied of useful files, I intend to try it
> under Mandrake (assuming this d/l of 8.1 ever finnishes).  Anybody know of
> problems with Mandrake and Compaq Presario's or of any reason I shouldn't
> use 8.1 on a 166 with 32 mb and 2gb hd?  As I understand, it has the
> surprisingly high requirement of 32mb min, which does bother me, but I've
> never seen a 586 box Linux didn't run well under.  
> 
> Matthew Ross
> EMAIL:PROTECTED
> 

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