Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 04:43:42 -1000 From: parv@pair.com To: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: office apps Message-ID: <20100608144342.GA1851@holstein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil2gpibF2N2Bir_eewMBQXru5L8Wln0EbqrUszw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100606203416.GF46089@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100607112150.6824a94f@icy.localdomain> <20100607164035.GC2102@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <AANLkTil2gpibF2N2Bir_eewMBQXru5L8Wln0EbqrUszw@mail.gmail.com>
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in message <AANLkTil2gpibF2N2Bir_eewMBQXru5L8Wln0EbqrUszw@mail.gmail.com>, wrote Alejandro Imass thusly... > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Chip Camden > <sterling@camdensoftware.com> wrote: > > On Jun 07 2010 11:21, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: > >> On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700 Chip Camden > >> <sterling@camdensoftware.com> wrote: ... > >> > Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office > >> > suite? OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it > >> > up and open a spreadsheet. > >> > >> There are some tips to speed up your Ooo. But if your Ooo took > >> minute to start, I guess that your system has a low hardware? > > > > I wouldn't have thought that an Intel Core i3 M350 (2.27Ghz) > > with 4GB would be considered "lo (sic) hardware". Everything > > else runs very quickly, even Windows 7 in VirtualBox. OOo is the > > only time I find myself waiting impatiently. ... > Anyway, chack to see if you may have a broken Java implementation, > and check to see if it's possible to get OO to work with Sun's JRE > 6, and give that a go and see. I have a gut feeling your problem > is related to a broken Java VM somewhere in your machine. Am I the only one who has (force) installed open office from package without java dependency and has yet to see a problem with MS Word & simple Excel files? It took about 15 "seconds" of manual count to see an empty window after typing "openoffice.org-3.0.0 -nologo". Hardware is ... Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.80GHz (1795.52-MHz 686-class CPU) ... avail memory = 3119153152 (2974 MB) ... ad4: 305245MB <Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 PB3OC60G> at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 1.5Gb/s (5400 rpm) "pkg_info -rx openoffice | sort -fu" shows ... Dependency: atk-1.28.0 Dependency: bitstream-vera-1.10_4 Dependency: cairo-1.8.8_1,1 Dependency: compositeproto-0.4 Dependency: damageproto-1.1.0_2 Dependency: desktop-file-utils-0.15_1 Dependency: encodings-1.0.2,1 Dependency: expat-2.0.1_1 Dependency: fixesproto-4.0 Dependency: font-bh-ttf-1.0.0 Dependency: font-misc-ethiopic-1.0.0 Dependency: font-misc-meltho-1.0.0_1 Dependency: font-util-1.0.1 Dependency: fontconfig-2.8.0,1 Dependency: freetype2-2.3.11 Dependency: gamin-0.1.10_3 Dependency: gdbm-1.8.3_3 Dependency: gettext-0.17_1 Dependency: gio-fam-backend-2.22.4 Dependency: glib-2.22.4 Dependency: gnome-mime-data-2.18.0_3 Dependency: gnome_subr-1.0 Dependency: gtk-2.18.7_1 Dependency: hicolor-icon-theme-0.12 Dependency: icu-3.8.1_3 Dependency: inputproto-1.5.0 Dependency: jpeg-8_1 Dependency: kbproto-1.0.3 Dependency: libart_lgpl-2.3.20,1 Dependency: libfontenc-1.0.4 Dependency: libICE-1.0.4_1,1 Dependency: libiconv-1.13.1_1 Dependency: libpthread-stubs-0.3_3 Dependency: libSM-1.1.0_1,1 Dependency: libX11-1.2.1_1,1 Dependency: libXau-1.0.4 Dependency: libXaw-1.0.5_1,1 Dependency: libxcb-1.5 Dependency: libXcomposite-0.4.0,1 Dependency: libXcursor-1.1.9_1 Dependency: libXdamage-1.1.1 Dependency: libXdmcp-1.0.2_1 Dependency: libXext-1.0.5,1 Dependency: libXfixes-4.0.3_1 Dependency: libXft-2.1.14 Dependency: libXi-1.2.1,1 Dependency: libXinerama-1.0.3,1 Dependency: libxml2-2.7.6_2 Dependency: libXmu-1.0.4,1 Dependency: libXp-1.0.0,1 Dependency: libXpm-3.5.7 Dependency: libXrandr-1.3.0 Dependency: libXrender-0.9.4_1 Dependency: libXt-1.0.5_1 Dependency: mkfontdir-1.0.4 Dependency: mkfontscale-1.0.6 Dependency: pango-1.26.2_2 Dependency: pcre-8.00 Dependency: pixman-0.16.6 Dependency: pkg-config-0.23_1 Dependency: png-1.4.1_1 Dependency: printproto-1.0.4 Dependency: randrproto-1.3.0 Dependency: renderproto-0.9.3 Dependency: shared-mime-info-0.71 Dependency: tiff-3.9.2_1 Dependency: xcb-util-0.3.6_1 Dependency: xextproto-7.0.5 Dependency: xf86vidmodeproto-2.2.2 Dependency: xineramaproto-1.1.2 Dependency: xorg-fonts-truetype-7.4 Dependency: xproto-7.0.15 Depends on: Information for en-openoffice.org-US-3.0.0: - parv --
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