Re: NHS privatisation + IT (was [Sheflug] Computing)

[Alastair Donlon <nospam [at] netsoc.ucd.ie>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 01:11:37PM +0000, Steve Tickle wrote:
> At 12:45 27/11/2000 +0000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> 
> As a matter of interest, what is the recommended cpu/memory for Star 
> Office? I have Star Office 5.2 installed on a SuSE 6.3 system with a 250MHz 
> Cyrix MII and 32MB of DRAM and SO runs like a 3-legged dog :(
> 
> The other day, I clicked the SO icon, went to the bog, got myself a cup of 
> coffee and came back to my office and the box was still thrashing the HD 
> like there's no tomorrow. (I have a 132MB swap partition BTW)

Well, I'm running it on a 400MHz Celeron, with 128Mb of RAM, and it
_still_ runs like a 3-legged dog. It takes at least 30 seconds to come
up and, even then, opening files and other simple things take _forever_
to do the first time. 

But, this is coming from someone who's only ever used SOffice under
extreme duress. Vi and latex are my friends. Quick, simple and 
memory efficient.

A.D.

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