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[ILUG] Minimal Desktop / Workstation Install [long by now !]

[ILUG] Minimal Desktop / Workstation Install [long by now !]

Padraig Brady padraig at antefacto.com
Wed Jun 12 11:40:42 IST 2002


John P. Looney wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:09:28AM +0100, Padraig Brady mentioned:
> 
>>First point already mentioned is if you want to let OO
>>anywhere near a P133 64MB machine then (at least for the
>>demo) just use it as an x server.
> 
>  Running from the nice Sun box that's doing Samba, perchance ?
> 
>>But why are you using OO anyway? Currently OO only supports
>>32K rows in the spreadsheet, excel = 64K, gnumeric = mem limited.
>>Also abiword is getting there fast. You could possibly run
>>gnumeric and abiword on a P133.

To clarify, I understood the 64K limit on spreadsheet rows
was a serious problem for Merrill.

>  Yeah, but Abiword doesn't support opening more than one document at once,
> or tables, so it's pretty useless, no ?

They fixed that bug for me last month :-)
Tables support is nearly done.
Seriously it's getting much better.

Padraig.





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