[Gllug] Office software

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:30:37AM -0000, will wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alain Williams" <addw at phcomp.co.uk>
> To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Office software
> 
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:53:12AM +0100, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> > > Star Office and Open Office both kill my laptop - brick/paperweight
> > > dead.  I am not sure where to start giving bug reports ;-).
> >
> > Yes. We (the Linux comminity) make claims that Linux runs on old/small
> hardware.
> > This can be true for server type apps, but not for modern desktop stuff.
> > Gnome eats memory and open/closes hundreds of files for no apparent
> reason - slow.
> 
> This is a pain.  At home I have an AMD K2500 with a 32Mb gfx card and 430Mb
> ram and KDE runs like a dog on it, Gnome is little better.  Comparitively
> the win98 desktop really does fly.  I have an old 486 with 20Mb of ram which
> used to run win95 quite successfully.  Running even the most basic Linux WM
> on that really make it unuseable (I don't as it is a server, but I have
> tried it just to see).
> 
> > IMHO: gnome/kde developers should be forced to use 100MHz pentiums with 32
> Mb ram.
> > We would soon see a rapid drop in machine resources needed.
> 
> Yay!  Why KDE needs a good 8 seconds to start up a terminal window I don't
> know.  Does anyone know *why* linux desktops are so damned slow?

Quite easy to find out:
	strace -f -o /tmp/trout -p XXXX
and open something or
	strace -f -o /tmp/trout gnome-terminal <appropriate options>

-- 
Alain Williams

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