Open Office

[Kimi Adams]

It's a 700 mhz Athlon, I believe.  I know that it has 128 mb ram.  There
is a lot going on with this machine as far as processes.  I realize that
certain things will take time to load, as it's the software itself.  I
believe that this software load has glitches.  I am going to download
the appropriate tar ball and remove the existing install to see if that
fixes it.

Thanks.

Kimi

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 22:08, Tom Emerson wrote:
> Kimi, what sort of box are you running this on.  I've made the mistake of 
> rolling OO under KDE on a Pentium II with 128 MB RAM, ouch, very painful.
> 
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, George Toft wrote:
> 
> > Kimi Adams wrote:
> > > 
> > > As many of you know, about a month ago I installed Mandrake 8.2 on my
> > > desktop, mostly out of frustration and need.  My administrator did the
> > > work. I have struggled with learning things over, after 20 successful
> > > years of MS'ing.
> > > 
> > > The problem is that when I launch Open Office, from the favorites menu,
> > > it takes a minute or two or more to get past the opening logo screen.
> > > THEN as if it's not bad enough, it either just stops opening after the
> > > logo screen goes away or when it actually opens the program, the cursor
> > > stops blinking and it suddenly closes within the first few seconds of
> > > being open.
> > > 
> > > I have not researched this issue, but I have talked to two other people
> > > that say it seems like a bad install or that maybe resources are messing
> > > with it.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestion that will actually fix the problem?
> > > 
> > > Kimi
> > > 
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> > 
> > StarOffice.
> > 
> > I saw Star Office 6.0 at Fry's for $24.95.  I tried OO - 2 hours later I
> > ran:
> > 	rpm -e OpenOffice
> > and went back to StarOffice 5.2.  Works like a champ.
> > 
> > I am totally mystified how an organization can take an excellent product
> > like SO 5.2, and insert a shiton of bugs, but the OO group has succeeded
> > quite well.
> > 
> > George
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