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 > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > 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 > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss