office apps

[parv at pair.com]

in message
<AANLkTil2gpibF2N2Bir_eewMBQXru5L8Wln0EbqrUszw at mail.gmail.com>,
wrote Alejandro Imass thusly...
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Chip Camden
> <sterling at 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 at 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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