I muddled through for about half a year with FC1 on a PIII 500 with 386meg of ram and an old slow hard drive. Open Office worked but it was slooooooow to open and even the odd save of a file was slow. I bought a new laptop (AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ at 2.133GHz) with 512meg that has a newer, presumably faster hard drive. When I installed FC1, open office suddenly worked WONDERFULLY. It was fast enough that I didn't even care about startup time. Not as fast as MS Office on WinXP, of course, but fast enough to be called "fast". Then I upgraded to FC2 and the newer open office that is included with that distribution. Suddenly open office was sloooooow to start up again. :-( I have updated open office and everything else a few times since then but nothing changes. FC2 + the newest open office seems to be observably slower than FC1 + (some older version of) open office. start up time now (with newest configuration and versions): 20 seconds (to load the spreadsheet main window) + 4 seconds (to load the actual very plain vanilla spreadsheet I use to keep track of my budget). This is the kind of slowness I used to see with my PIII 500! Anyone have any ideas why this is so slow, when FC1+older Open office was faster? Is it an OO issue or an FC issue? Or a kernel issue (using kernel-2.6.8-1.521)? -- Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
