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- wipeout140, on 10/10/2007, -0/+43How to speed up OpenOffice:
Reduce the number of Undo steps to a figure lower than 100. 20 or 30 steps suggested.
Under Graphics cache, set Use for OpenOffice.org to 128 MB (up from the original 6MB).
Set Memory per object to 20MB (up from the default .5MB).
Set the number of objects under Cache for inserted objects at 20.
Now highlight Java on the left panel, uncheck Use a Java runtime environment - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+37This is good for stopping the reign of $200 office suite junk
- astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -1/+31OpenOffice is a great product.... free and it doesn't jail your documents to an OS, let alone you having to shell out a car payment to type up a letter!
Sure IBM may make some modifications to it, but the fact that ODF is getting into main stream is the key. If you get the Government to accept it, then Microsoft... (I was thinking out loud again...tisk, tisk), will be knocked off its high horse of Office Productivity Suites. - dyl8n, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Dugg for the fact that a major corporation did the right thing!
- gharding, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14That's the way to go. If you ever want large adoption, work on accessibility so the government can adopt it. It'll spread like wildfire if that happens.
- sundancekid503, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12I hear what you're saying
- adgreene, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12they need to work on making it run a little faster.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11What's so strange about that. IBM want to open the market up. ODF allows this, OOXML doesn't.
- serrebi, on 10/10/2007, -4/+11This is good for blind computer user choice. Nuff said.
- zieak, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8"It looks like you are trying to write a letter to someone that is blind..."
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It's just because of having to run under X11. Hopefully the Aqua port will be done soon.
- m00nmaster, on 11/10/2007, -0/+6What are the implications (even though this did reduce opening time and lag)?
- geekee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6So IBM votes against OOXML, and then starts development on the competing format's (ODF) code.
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Isn't Star based on OO's code?
- mystere, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Those are the anti-christ. Even Microsoft has stopped using a quickstart plugin since about Office XP. It's a hack, and all it does is excuse poor coding by providing a workaround.
- HiddenCanuck, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Yeah, OpenOffice meets/beats all MS offices up to 2007 - but i think you may be right in saying that 2007 is pretty darned sexy and slightly superior. Not 200 extra dollars sexy, but sexy.
- pak314, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5There is also this quickstart plugin or something that keeps some part of OpenOffice resident in memory so it starts up much faster. I know it get default with my Ubuntu install. Probably not good with a low memory system but it was fine on my 512MB system.
- deadowl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I hope they help simplify the complexity of the codebase.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Yeah but the start up time is greatly reduced which suggests to me that their build process is more sane.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Neoffice?
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Check out Zimbra
http://www.zimbra.com/ - Laiden, on 10/10/2007, -9/+12Office 2007 is nice. Make OpenOffice par with it, then I'll consider saving $200.
- oobuntu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i think this is the reason why KOffice is so much faster - it is a lot leaner and cleaner.
- Bozodog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Works. Thank you.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3You realise you are talking about the richest tech company on the planet (no it's not MS, IBM over took them a few years back. It might be close this year given Vista's release).
- MeneerR, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2There is good 3rd party commercial accesibility support for the microsoft ecosystem.
Companies may be forced to actually use Microsoft products so that blind or disabled people can also do the work.
Still, maybe the most important thing for accesibility for OSS, is to create a fully accesible developper's toolchain and offer free programming courses to (for example) blind people. Emancipation you know. Let them make their own tools. They know what they want, and its the OSS way.
Nevertheless, IBM's efforts are great. - GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Evolution is Outlook/Exchange compatible. There are things missing from OOo which are there in MSO but there are good equivalents elsewhere. It's not as if we are lacking E-Mail clients in the FOSS world.
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2They actually sold the Thinkpad line to Lenovo. But otherwise, yeah. IBM is definitely focused on the enterprise.
- dezmd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Oh ok, so as long as you use Office 2007 for the same thing you use OpenOffice for then its ok, but if you try to use O2k7 with its native format your *****...
- lkms, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3isn't ODF already an ISO standard?
and there are good reasons to vote anti ooxml, like that it uses references to undocumented formats. - marnaq, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You mean like steroids?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2OOo is SLOW, that's a fact. Is slow even running. I use it for all my documents needs and is good but it is slow in a considerable way.
- Phlosten, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Just remember to turn the Java on when you want to run any of the wizards. On my Ubuntu Feisty install I have replaced the 2.0.0 version with the latest version. Runs much better.
- Avatar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Right. Been there since AmiPro and still wish WordPro was in the game. Finally went to OpenOffice this year and spent over a week manually importing 1,000 of files. OpenOffice is OK but is slow and still lacks tabs and other slick WordPro amenities.
- PhilUk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Download the free suite here http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/ ...
- 955701, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yes, but forking is expensive. It's an eddy current in an otherwise smooth stream, where energy is sapped and momentum is squandered. I would rather the flagship OSS solutions - groupware, office suites, development tools, etc. be dominated by contributors with charity in mind, not monolith looking to push their agenda with community efforts that were headed in a different direction.
- TrancePhreak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1If it's such junk then why must OO.org catch up to it?
- niallabrown, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I have office 2007. It's what drove me to Open Office. I'm a much happier person now and I dont hurt other people as often.
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I actually thought the opposite. It seems there aren't that many email options out there in the FOSS world. I love Thunderbird. But if you don't use that, Evolution may be too big, bulky or just not what you need for the average home user. Outside of that, there really isn't much else.
- macewan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I see that this would be attractive to nonprofits needing Office Suites. Over the last four years I've used OpenOffice.org at work without problems so I'm a huge fan.
- DickBreath, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Some features will not work unless you enable Java.
- arbulus, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4I don't.
- TanNg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is a magic of two combined ducks become a swan?
- FascistNation, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Very interesting. I believe IBM still holds the rights to another wonderful office suite: SmartSuite. Possibilities?
- tunapez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Thanx for the tip, will look into it immediately. I've tried a few, but they were never suitable replacements for Outlook on clients' MS based systems. People don't like change in the office, it's the end-users I have to convince to go Open. One desk at a time.
- TanNg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They don't want open market until they lost the game
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2It's not slow once it's running. It just takes time to start. This is because the build process is stupid and leaves the application needing to link in masses of stuff that should be compiled into the main binary (this is also why Java is slow to start). I'm not sure why this hasn't been fixed, perhaps it's because OOo competes directly with Sun's Star Office.
- thefinger, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3MS Office is no piece of junk. I can't speak for newer versions but even Word2K is eons ahead of OO. If people are going to settle on a free alternative to something like MS Word, Abiword would be the way to go. If I needed the suite of apps, I'd go with Office. I see no hope or sign of OO working to get their speed anything close to what Word can do. I'm talking about start-up and responsiveness, and even shutting off the program. It all happens quickly on my machine. The same isn't true for Open Office. It's just slow as molasses, been that way for years, and I think will always be.
- lkms, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2if things go wrong anyone is always free to fork it, right?
- TanNg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1:) OO and Lotus - 2 losers together (and their supporters)
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