On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Brendan O'Brien wrote:
> > > Hey Y'all-- > > I was wondering if anyone out there has had the same problem I have with > StarCalc. In my work I routinely do data analysis on hundreds of thousands > of data points. Normally, I use Excel on Win98 to do this but recently I > grew frustrated with Windows with all its bugs and crashes and reboots on a > daily basis. I decided to try using Linux based on it's reputation for > stability and installed Corel and then subsequently Debian as a separate > partition in the same box. When I try to run one of the standard data > analysis routines I use with Excel/Win98 it takes literally seconds to draw a > graph. If I try to do the same thing with StarCalc the cpu grinds away for > minutes at nearly 100% usage and eventually the job crashes the system > altogether. Does this sound familiar to anyone? > > > The box is a 400MHz Pentium II, 64MB RAM, 1GB Linux partition.... > > > Thanks, > > > Brendan > Its also my experience. StarOffice and especially StarCalc can't reach the performance and "stability" of M$-Excel. I have tested StarOffice 5.0 on Kernel 2.2.6 against Excel on NT 4.0. I'm use gnuplot instead. - high performnce - high quality plots - high stability but a little bit of trainig for your first positive experience. have a lucky day Peter Wintrich PS: sorry my poor english
