OpenOffice more bloated than Micro$oft?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Installed OpenOffice the other day. Seems really slow, as in, pretty much unusable. I'm running a Slot A Athlon 750Mhz.
Has anyone compiled OO with a similar system? Before I try, I'd like to gauge if speed would improve enough to matter.
Wasn't there something called SOT based on OO? I'm wondering if they've done any optimizations.

LaSAR · Posted: Sat May 18, 2002 10:19 pm Post subject:

It runs perfectly well on mij Athlon classic 700..
Only startup takes some time (12s)

dArkMaGE · Apprentice Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 152

maybe it depends on what type of java runtime you have installed?

lunatc · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 1:57 am Post subject: no problems

I'm running OOo 1.0 too and no problems (I've installed it from the binaries from OpenOffice.org)

It takes me only 4 seconds to start Writer on an Athlon 1GHz -256Mb ram with the kde's quickstart applet from http://segfaultskde.berlios.de/oooqs/ (with a tricky workaround for the problem mentioned in that website)

BTW: Just for the curious there's the trick: put this in the /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.0 file before the /usr/kde/3/bin/startkde
statement:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Thanks for the suggestion lunatc, but I don't use KDE. Perhaps SETI is interfering. Though nothing else seems to have problems.
I'm guessing startup is 15 seconds or so. After that, text seems to lag behind my typing once in a while. Menus don't seem very
snappy either. As for Java, I'm pretty sure its the blackdown variety. I tried IBM's JRE first, but it wouldn't emerge.

Thanks for the input.

Jeevz · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 2:04 pm Post subject:

I've been running OO with P4 1.4 under Fluxbox and it has been running great. So far I'm very impressed. Not that that helps you, just sharing my experience :wink: