Re: Slow execution of applications !!!!

[Martin Sevior <msevior physics unimelb edu au>]

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 01:59, Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
> 
> [removed usability list from cc:]
> 
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, JC Jan Christensen wrote:
> 
> > 
> >   Dear Sirs
> > 
> >   I have installed Red Hat LINUX version 8.0 on a K6-500Mhz computer with
> >   256 Mb RAM. The /boot-partition is 100 Mb, the swap-partition is 510 Mb
> > and
> >   the root-partition (/) is the remaining space of the harddisk (37550 Mb).
> > It is
> >   a 40 Gb harddisk.
> > 
> >   When I try to run OpenOffice-writer it takes 30 seconds before the program
> > is
> >   started. That is very very very very slow. When I start Microsoft WORD
> > 2000 
> >   on a computer with Windows 2000 it only takes about 5 seconds before this
> >   program is started. GNOME is in general VERY slow when it comes to
> > program-
> >   execution. I hope that you have focus on that !!!!!!
> > 
> 
> Well, most of MS office startup is done during the system bootup, you can
> achieve the same effect for OOo (and I supposed gnome, should somebody
> write such) by using a special 'fast-load program that does nothing but
> just causes the shared libraries to be loaded. Just search for it on
> sourceforge.
> 
> >   I hope that you would do something to increase the speed of
> > program-execution.
> > 

The gnome office team is hard at work to prove applications
significantly faster than MS and Open Office. Checkout Gnumeric, AbiWord
and Evolution.

Cheers

Martin