From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 06:37:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA02022 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 06:37:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@ghana-152.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA02012 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 06:37:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA00344; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 06:38:43 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 06:38:43 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELETING WINDOWS 95, Please Help In-Reply-To: <19971215192331.36642@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > StarOffice is very hungry for memory. Judging by the times you > mention, I'd guess you have 16 MB of memory. Increase that to 32 or > 48 MB, and it will be dramatically faster: it won't crawl any more, > it'll just be slow. No, I have 64mb ;-) And no I'm not gonna try to get 32 more. > I hate StarOffice. It's just like Microsoft Word, the screen is full > of little unrecognizable pictures, and the editor is really weak. But > if that's what you're used to, and you can't make the step to a > separate editor and formatter, then it might be for you. I like it because it's graphical and somewhat less awkward than emacs (for me). If I had my way, I'd like to see a [free] version of WP 5.1 (for DOS) ported over to some *nix with long file name and perhaps lpr and ghostscript support. Rumor has it that was written in assembly. ;-) > >> Please FreeBSD guys, Help me to get rid of Windows 95. - alex