That is great to hear.
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| dsTst Oct 06, 2006 6:07 PM EDT |
One of my pet grouse with Open Office (OOWrite) was its slow initial loading time. Especially compared to the native applications such as Abiword or the windows counterpart MSWord. I thought it was because atleast a part of it was coded using java language. Or maybe because of the time it takes to load a lot of plugins in memory. It is nice to know that they have eventually got around to tidy up the code to make it as quick as any other native application. I look forward to using the latest version of OpenOffice.org. |
| 1c3d0g Oct 06, 2006 8:19 PM EDT |
Excellent news indeed. OOo rulez! |
| nalf38 Oct 07, 2006 6:00 PM EDT |
The only OOo component that uses java is Base. I would have like to hear how the office suite loaded on *Linux*, this site being called lxer.com. Did I miss that part somewhere? |
| dcparris Oct 07, 2006 6:17 PM EDT |
Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but Debian GNU/Linux is Linux, plus the GNU utilities, so I guess that should have answered your question. |
| jimf Oct 07, 2006 6:23 PM EDT |
You're getting confused nalf38. Neither I nor Don use 'that other' OS :D |
| dcparris Oct 07, 2006 8:42 PM EDT |
I do use it on my full-time job - not my choice, but oh well. The nice thing in this case is that it gave me the opportunity to test OOo against MS Office. I never expected OOo to actually beat MS Office loading. What a hoot! |
| jimf Oct 07, 2006 9:12 PM EDT |
Was just speaking of that for our personal useage Don. To be honest, I also have a reference system running for customer support, and access to MS Office. A necessary evil for the moment I guess. |
| tuxchick2 Oct 08, 2006 9:43 AM EDT |
Cross-platform support is going to be a necessary evil forever and ever. Any network or sysadmins who insist on specializing in a single operating system are not going to be equipped to make good decisions, or even to be very useful. It sucks rocks to have to stay Windows-literate, but that's the way it is. Anyway we need more smart, well-educated IT persons doing windows, instead of more brain-dump MCSEs. I think the single worst thing to come out of Redmond is the notion that barely-trained monkeys can be network and system administrators. |
| dcparris Oct 08, 2006 9:48 AM EDT |
Eeee! Eeee! Ooh! Ooh! Ahhh! Ahhh! Sorry, just felt like monkeying around. |
| tuxchick2 Oct 08, 2006 10:39 AM EDT |
I knew your LXer photo had extensive air-brushing, I knew it! |
| jimf Oct 08, 2006 10:48 AM EDT |
> Anyway we need more smart, well-educated IT persons doing windows tuxchick, I've developed a theory on this :D Since companies are most all $$$ oriented, I've seen most of them, skimp on the support end of it after paying all those nice MS license fees. In the smaller outfits I've worked with, they're lucky if they have a MCSE. It usually gets passed off to Engineering. I suspect that the lower cost of Linux software and hardware lets them at least think about properly trained IT personnel. |
| dcparris Oct 08, 2006 11:32 AM EDT |
> I knew your LXer photo had extensive air-brushing, I knew it! You might enjoy my family photo album: http://images.google.com/images?q=orangutan&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-... :-D |
| dek Oct 08, 2006 12:21 PM EDT |
>> my family photo album: Hmm Nice looking family!! Uhh Uhhhhhhhh Uhgg!! (Orangutan - speak for "who da babe??") ;-) |
| tuxchick2 Oct 08, 2006 12:44 PM EDT |
Oh Don... which one is your wife? Or should I just ask her? |
| dcparris Oct 08, 2006 8:51 PM EDT |
> Oh Don... which one is your wife? Or should I just ask her? She's the cute one! :-p I actually love orangutans. They might be mad at me if they knew I compared them to MCSEs though. |
| jimf Oct 08, 2006 9:11 PM EDT |
That's unfair, they are far smarter than MCSEs. |
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