[LI] Star Office blues

[Shivshankar Sastry <sastry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Installed Star Office on Linux 5.2 -(was looking for ways to do WP and
spreadsheet work on Linux.)

On my machine (P100, 16 MB) Star office is *seriously* slow (like running
Win 95 on a 386 4 MB) :-(

It takes 3-4 minutes to load, and opening a file takes 2-3 min. Tried
installing - deinstalling - reinstalling with different options - no use.

Once the program is loaded - some things work at super speed. Image
manipulation functions are at least 3-4 times as fast as in PSP in W95 on
the same machine. However, the loading time is too slow for practical work
and I have removed Star Office for anticipated future use in a faster
dedicated Linux machine. With my current setup, M$Word under Wine loads
faster and seems to run stably. More on that in a separate message.




        Shivshankar Sastry
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