Re: [Sheflug] StarOffice 6.0b

[José Luis Gómez Dans <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 09:23:50PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> Crikey. I've selected the 'Low Bandwidth' option, which lets you download the 
> pieces in bite-sized chunks. For values of 'bite-sized' equal to '9Mb' :S

	I got my copy for linux from borft.student.utwente.nl, clocking
at about 500 k/s :-)

> Anyone else got it running? I personally can't wait - I didn't even think the 
> previous versions were too bad, and this one is supposed to be pretty good. 
> All I need is good Office '97 interoperability (that's the standard we use at 
> work) and I'm sorted .. 

	First of all, it starts up much faster than before (<10 seconds
on my computer, compared to about 40 seconds before), it imports your
previous settings (say, from 5.2). However, I still think the installer
should be made a bit more user friendly (so far, only the user that
installed the package can actually use it, which is annoying). As
before, memory consumptions is high-ish, but I haven't tested any large
document (I don't really need star office, abiword opens most of the
files I get over here).

	What'd be nice is if they had a database layer to mysql/pgsql or
something like that, so you can do your forms and reports and stuff with
it and connect to the above servers.

	Hope the mirror's still up,
	José
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