[lug] M$ does it again...down under

[Timothy Klein]

I once tried to use StarOffice on a P233 with 32 Mb of RAM. It really wasn't
usable at all.  It took, literally, about 4 minutes to first fire up 
StarOffice.  Every task in the program was painfully slow.  Not usable at all.

The machine ran KDE 1.something, and that was OK.  Not great, Blackbox or
the like would have been better, but it was for my Mom.

Upping the memory to 96 Mb made a HUGE difference in the performance of 
StarOffice.

Tim

* John Hernandez (John.Hernandez at noaa.gov) wrote:
> Interesting.  How good are the prospects of running a Linux/XFree86/StarOffice/Konqueror setup on, say, a P-133 32MB RAM?  Will it be starved for resources and hopelessly slow?  Or will it be even more responsive and usable than Windows/Office/IE 95 on a similar system?
> 
> I think that Linux once had a reputation as being a good choice for older/outdated systems.  Does that still hold true with the modern suite of software that accompanies most distros?  Or has it made a shift to higher-end systems?

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