Re: the quest for the right Distro for the right person

From: Tzafrir Cohen (tzafrir_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sun 29 Aug 2004 - 14:13:55 IDT


On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:17:09AM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > god those computers are sexy... they look really good, and have a good hebrew
> > support (safari is better then konqueror ATM). The problem is that OOo sux
> > there, and is really slow (so I heard). The look and feel of OOo does not
> > match the system ones,
>
> That is a bummer. OO is not that slow, it depends upon how much memeory and
> how fast your CPU is. 256 meg of ram is not enough for OS X, although it
> will run in 128meg.

It also reads many files from the disk at startup. Thus it will start
more slowly from slower filesystem such as a knoppix CD or an NFS
partition.

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