From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 21 05:40:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA17974 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 05:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (proot@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA17969 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 05:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA03648; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 07:40:04 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199708211240.HAA03648@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: StarOffice start-up time(slow) To: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (Jim Durham) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 07:40:03 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <33FBB724.446B9B3D@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> from Jim Durham at "Aug 20, 97 11:33:56 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Jim Durham said: > I'd like to compare notes with anyone who has tried running the > StarOffice suite. > > On my system, a 5X86-133 with 40 megs of ram, it takes 2 or 3 *minutes* > for any StarOffice app to start doing something. Once up, StarWriter > (at least) runs OK. (Stardraw crashes). > > I'm running 3.0-SNAP (970807) . > > Is this to get you to buy the commercial version 8) ? > > -Jim Durham I had the same question a couple months ago. The response I got was that this was by design, for reasons, that I don't remember other than they made no sense. It annoyed me too much to use. I'm back to Win95 and 123-97 and Word 6 (won't use anything new, WAY to bloated). Paul. -- "Forgive them, for they know not what they do."