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[Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you tweak openoffice to use less ram, simple

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:57 PM, John Zoidberg <zohn.joidberg@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Slightly off-topic:
>
> >>    3. Gnome office is a light office suite but very poor, Open Office is
> >>    heavier but is a real working tool.
> > I do 95% of my 'office' work with Abiword, Gnumerics, Osmo and xpad.
>  Only rarely  do I require OOo, and usually that is to import some Excel
> spreadsheet.were somebody has used some dubious technique to achieve
> something that can be done in a simpler way.
> >
>
> That reminds me: I had problems switching between openoffice and
> gnumeric. One of them couldn't import the format of the other.
> Furthermore, there were big problems with the date format (DD/MM/YY
> and MM/DD/YY). Some kind of conflict between the system locale
> settings and the app settings.
> I'll have to analyze things a bit and make a bug report eventually.
>
> On-topic:
> I use both Chromium and Firefox. (Firefox+noscript+private mode for
> banking for instance)
> My main problem is that weave/sync and xmarks are unusable on my old
> laptop. They just completely hang everything when syncing.
> Firefox also tends to slow down the system sometimes.
> For browsers, seamonkey (default in Puppy Linux) could also be a good
> default choice.
> Other candidates might be midori, arora, epiphany.
>
> As for office stuff, I prefer OpenOffice, even if it takes more time
> to start. Especially after all the problems I had with portability of
> the gnumeric format and date formats.
> However, the goal of Lubuntu is to be lightweight, so it makes sense
> not to include it.
>
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