office apps

[Chip Camden]

On Jun 07 2010 12:54, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> 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:
> >>
> >> > This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please
> >> > slap me over to the right one.
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >>
> 
> Well, now that I recall I had a similar issue with the Android SDK
> under Linux, and it's related to your problem because OO uses gjc (the
> GNU Java implementation) as a pre-requisite and Eclipse was using
> _that_ instead of the Sun jdk I had installed. Well the issue is that
> Eclipse _took FOREVER_ to start, much like what you are describiong
> right now with OO (albeit I use FBSD with OO in older hw w/ no
> problems). 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.

That's a good clue -- I'll let you know what I find out.
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