OpenOffice.org Bloatware?

[Leo Mauler]

Well whats interesting is that my laptop only has
128MB of RAM and I've never had more than a couple
second delay between opening OpenOffice.org and
getting into the document.  I too have the
Quickstarter in RAM though.  

I haven't tried running more than one OOo application
at once, mostly using Writer and occasionally Calc.

--- Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well, I don't know what effect this has,
> but on my desktop system, I've put the OOo
> quickstarter on my control panel and I find
> that office starts fairly quick for me.
> First time after the computer wakes up, takes about
> 6
> seconds, and every time after that about 2. I'm
> running
> on what can only be considered "old" hardware now,
> a 1.3 GHz Athlon w/ .5 GB RAM. Of course with only
> 256
> MB RAM it would be slower, I don't get a lot of disc
> caching anymore. I'm quite happy with OOo these
> days.
> Except for some personal quibbles not related to
> performance.
> 
> My $0.02,
> Brian JD
> 
> --- Luke-Jr wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 28 October 2005 04:20, Leo Mauler wrote:
> > > After spending an entire ITEC exposition
> extolling
> > the
> > > virtues of OOo, this crops up to claim that OOo
> > has
> > > memory usage issues and very slow startup times.
> > >
> ...
> 
> > 
> > OOo has always seemed bloated and slow to me, so I
> > treat it fairly similar to 
> > Mozilla/FireFox: It's the best you can get for
> > crapOS/Windows, but probably 
> > the worst for every other OS.
> Why?
> 
> > 
> > KOffice does more than I'll ever need.
> KOffice is nice too.
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