JRE

Does star office run faster when running under Jave in the JRE? I installed
it using the Java-less option and man is it slow. I have a K6-2 300 with 48
MB of RAM on my linux box and Star Office takes about 2 minutes just to
load up and when I am actually in it is is slower than heck. Got a bit
better when I did hdparm -c3d1 /dev/hda, but still not usuable for my
patience today. I got so frustrated I am now going to type my paper in
Office 97 on my Game Machine (please forgive me for my momentary weakness).
Come to think of it my entire Gnome experience has been much slower than I
am used to. I have an 8 meg 3D labs card but Xconfigurator only found it to
have 512 K of RAM I tried to set it manually. Could X perhaps be
underutilizing my card? Maybe I should just get a better Card like a viper
v550, anyone have on for trade/sale? Thanks in advance as always.

- Joel

Just realizing my path out of newbiedom just got longer