[CLUE-Talk] Re: [CLUE-Tech] MS Office on Linux -- would you?

[G. Richard Raab]

On Wednesday 2004 February 18 08:36 pm, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> [I'm continuing this over on talk.]
>
> One thing I don't like about OpenOffice is that it takes so long to
> load.

You are in luck. One of the reasons why OO loads slowly is that it loads when 
YOU request it. With MS Office, it preloads it when MS decides. They decided 
for purpose of speed that it will load in upon boot up. That means it 
occupies about 256M of your ram doing nothing until you start using it.
With So/Oo, it is an option.
If you are on MS, there is a MS tray thingie that allows it to be pre-loaded.
For Linux, we have
gnome:http://ooqstart.sourceforge.net/
kde:http://segfaultskde.berlios.de/index.php?content=oooqs

Also, if that is not good enough, koffice will shortly support the ability to 
use OO format. That will allow you the option to use that.
Abiword may all ready support it.

Freedom to choose; What a wonderful concept.

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