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pele_smk
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 Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject: Open Office is painly sloooow |
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No matter what OS I use, OpenOffice is the slowest thing on mother earth to load. Does anyone have any tricks they use to load Open Office writer faster? Even Microsofts Office is stupid slow to load, so it's nothing against OO. This is an area OO can overcome the MS Office option with a simple faster load time. Someone help! Give me some ideas on why it takes the program a long time to load and I'll be happy. Thanks in advance for any help.
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There's nothing you can do about it. You can preload it with oo-loader in advance but it doesn't make it faster to load.
Two other solutions may be buying more RAM or giving abiword/gnumeric a try (I went for solution n°2).
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pele_smk
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heh, number two sounds like the only solution. This machine takes a lifetime for it to load and it has 1g memory. A frickin text editor takes longer than a video game does to load. Come on Office!
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Momo_CCCP
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The problem here is that OO is precisely _not_ just a text editor...
But really if you aren't allergic to gtk, you ought to give abiword and gnumeric a try. They are both very light and fairly complete. For something even lighter you may want to take a look at Siag Office : http://siag.nu/index.shtml.
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| When you said slow, how long do you consider a slow??? From looking at the spec of your machine, it shouldn't take more than a couple of seconds for OpenOffice to start... |
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whitesouls
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject: Re: Open Office is painly sloooow |
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| pele_smk wrote: | | No matter what OS I use, OpenOffice is the slowest thing on mother earth to load. Does anyone have any tricks they use to load Open Office writer faster? Even Microsofts Office is stupid slow to load, so it's nothing against OO. This is an area OO can overcome the MS Office option with a simple faster load time. Someone help! Give me some ideas on why it takes the program a long time to load and I'll be happy. Thanks in advance for any help. |
I guess using soe insane CFLAGS will help but the thing is Openoffice ebuild is smart enough to filter your CFLAGS which is "alien" to it...guess some OO loader will do the job...Could you specify what is the
1.loading time of your OO
2.What installation you did or what gcc version you using:?:
3.your emerge --info will help us 
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DaveArb
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Agree with questions regarding how slow slow is. I just loaded OOWriter on a 1.7G P4 with a whopping 256M of memory, it took about 8 seconds. Granted I wasn't running any major selects in PostGreSQL at the same time.
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whitesouls
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| DaveArb wrote: | Agree with questions regarding how slow slow is. I just loaded OOWriter on a 1.7G P4 with a whopping 256M of memory, it took about 8 seconds. Granted I wasn't running any major selects in PostGreSQL at the same time.
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Well, mine is 3-4 seconds on a 1.6Ghz pentium-m and 512MB....
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Ma3oxuct
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hmmm...on my RDRAM system, it takes less than two seconds. This is with nptl as well as a compiled-from-source Oo (not binaries). I used to have a 4 second loading time with binaries.
I think that nptl and a compiled Oo should cut down loading times it half.
Too bad RDRAM has been phased out  |
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