[ILUG] Office migrations to Linux

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:02:48AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
fuzzbucket thought:
> 
> Problem is OpenOffice will take an age to run - I installed it on the
> family's PII - we're talking the guts of a minute here to get the GUI,
> but once it's open it's quite responsive on that box (350MHz, 256K L2,
> 192MB RAM). Is AbiWord any lighter? Not used it myself.

Doesn't OOo have a 'preload' option?  Or is that doze only?  It appears to
be the 'quickstarter' option in the Tools -> Options -> Memory page but,
in OOo 1.1.0 on RH9 it's not showing up but it's there in the help.  Maybe
there's a commandline option you can pass in a .bash_profile or .bashrc

Had a look and there's a 'quickstarter.exe' in doze but nothing
corresponding in linux.  The closest I could see was
/usr/local/bin/office52/user/config/quickstart which is from StarOffice
5.2 and is just an empty directory.  Maybe a poke around the sources might
turn up a suitable invocation.  Perhaps a 'private:factory' type startup.

Conor
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