Re: [tlug] Linux on Japanese TV News

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Jan 27, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Roger Markus wrote:

> On 1/26/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> > the focus was very much on the civil servants using OOo in the City
> > Hall. The head of tech there is holding plenty of workshops to help
> > the workers get used to the new interface.
>
> Wow.  They must have *nice* machines.  I find OOo unbearably slow,
> even compared to MS Office on a 1GHz Mac; I can't imagine trying to
> use it to Do Real Work.
>
> You must must be using some real junk for computers!  OpenOffice  
> opens in about 8 seconds on my four-year-old early P-IV box.  Don't  
> forget that Microsoft pre-loads MS-Office by default, which eats  
> system resources but does provide for faster opening, as it should,  
> since it's always running in the background!  OpenOffice (a vastly  
> superior product), gives the user the option to have it running in  
> the background or no.  I have chosen to do so actually, which is  
> why it only needs eight seconds to open.
>
> You should get a new(er) computer (four years old or newer) and  
> stop bad-mouthing OpenOffice!

he speaks about using a Mac - and if he's using Mac OS X,  
unfortunately I have to say that he's right. The available portages  
aren't really an option imho to MS Office. They are slow (and MS  
Office doesn't preload on Mac OS X afaik) and they are even less "Mac- 
like" as MS Office is.
On a Linux- or Windows-machine I would prefer usually Open Office…

Niels