Re: Stability survey

["Mark Gallagher" <mark cyberfuddle com>]

Rob Brown-Bayliss writes: 

> HI, is any one actually using OpenOffice or Gnome for real work? (as in
> non geek work).

Uhh... does "school work" count?  I try to use AbiWord whenever possible, 
but sometimes OO or StarOffice is required. 

> I have had a release of OO on my PC for a few weeks (and have used Gnome
> since the redhat 5.2 days), the last one before OO 1.0 came out and have
> tried to use it a couple of times, but found that it's quite likely to
> crap out...

I had this problem with StarOffice.  I went and got OpenOffice (very 
similar, but hopefully without the bugs) and the bloody thing won't even 
allow me to execute it. 

> It's been about 2 years since I last use MS Office and windows so I cant
> really be certain that OO is less stable, (though it's been 2 years
> since I logged on to my PC and had it reboot which my old work WinPC did
> at least once a week...)

I've found Office to be extremely unstable, but still better than 
StarOffice. 

> But the problem I have is that I use Gnome, swear by it, but almost with
> out fail if showing someone how it works some thing craps out, The Gimp
> will crash when cutting, OO when spell checking or saving, Some Nautilus
> side bar will not load and give an error message etc.

Gimp will crash while *cutting*?  That's never happened to me. 

> When I think about it, none of the apps I use are as stable as the non
> gnome side of the system - apache, squid, postgres and linux it's self
> are all very stable, but the desktop isn't 

I find Gnome to be more stable (not to mention prettier, easier to use, more 
customisable, and faster to load) than KDE, and I rarely have problems with 
it. 

Many Gnome-based apps (and, of course, KDE apps I try to run on Gnome), on 
the other hand... 

<snip /> 

> How are the rest of you finding things.  Evolution, Gnucash and Gnumeric
> (i dont use gnumeric often) are the only apps I feel certain wont bomb
> on me... 

I don't use Gnucash, and I haven't yet found a use for Gnumeric (but I 
will... oh, yes), but I used to use Evolution all the time, until I got 
absolutely sick and tired of the constant crashing.  I couldn't run 
Evolution for a *single* session without it crashing somewhere along the 
line! :o) 



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