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Re: SO 5--bigger, or better?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Fall)
Sun Nov 8 23:21:18 1998
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 00:15:55 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
From: Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dyn.ml.org>
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On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Jeff wrote:
> For all of you that have successfully downloaded (how?) SO 5.0, and
Before I answer... By God, xscreensaver 3.02 + Mesa is right this very
minute causing my brains to ooze out my nose.
Re Star Office: Netscape 4.07 with cookies on gave me no problems
downloading, but in the registration form (after installation) I had to
make my initials and the first part of my email address match for the key
to be right. As for installing, first I used './setup /net', and then
each user runs /usr/local/Office50/bin/setup with no options and
registers, which means that each user has to go through all the hoops at
the website to get a key.
> installed it--it is worth it? Is it even bigger and more bloated than
> 4.0, or have they cleaned it up a bit? Is it still a
> load-everything-at-once beheamoth, or is it now modular? This thing was
> almost cool around version 3.x (at least on Warp), but 4.0 is about
> twice as bloated as any M$ app I can think of. I love that it's free,
> but it sure is a dog in 64 MB RAM on a P6....
It is a monster. I reckon it would take around 128 MB and a P233 or so
for me to let it regularly share the desktop with the other stuff I've
usually got going. But then again, being mostly a latex user (ahem) I
don't need to use it all that much. It is a pretty good tool to have
available. As for whether or not it's worth the disk space: I have about
1.2 GB on my HD, and not a huge amount of it free any more, and I'm gonna
keep it.
> In what areas did it get better/worse?
It was able to reformat a Word document originally intended for A4 paper
that neither Word 97 nor Word 6 (tried both on Macs and NT) would *allow*
me to reformat (said doc was supposedly written with Word 97). Which I
appreciate. Version 4.0 hung while loading the same document. The
Windows-type interface makes me pretty skittish, and I don't understand
why Star Division doesn't have the guts to make their own (there are
apparently some competent developers there). Even so, I suppose I got
waaaay more than I paid for. I think I might on a rainy day do a smaller
installation and see if that helps. Final verdict: Star Office, while
not terribly big on innovation (M$ buzzword!!!), has so far worked
perfectly, and in my one example was able to pretty much out-Word Word
itself.
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