Re: [TCLUG:10692] StarOffice

[Brent Metzler <debian@pluto.twistedpair.net>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Scott wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Brian Ackermann wrote:
> 
> > I don't suppose there is a local mirror of the Sun's StarOffice suite anywhere about, eh?
> 
>      I'm not sure why anyone would want StarOffice to begin
> with.  I tried out the copy that came with SuSE 6.2 and it
> ground my box (K6 300, 32mb) to almost a complete halt.
> Unless McNealy pulled a magic wand of +5 efficiency out
> of his ass, I bet it's not much better now. 

Didn't run very well on the 486sx-25 with 8meg ram either.  What a shame
:)

Thankfully, there are more powerful machines to run more powerful software
now.

-Brent