On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 06:07:25PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 08:02:40AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > > You are wrong --- WP8 was natively written for Linux. It's WP9, aka > > WP2000, that's run under wine, and wow is it horrible. > > Does anybody know how the Corel Office Suite (WP2000) compares to > StarOffice in terms of performance & compatbility to M$-Word format? > I have StarOffice installed here, and hey, I mean I've got a > 750 MhZ Duron processor, a quick harddrive and 512 Megs of RAM, > and I still wouldn't recommend it!
I have a Pentium 200, with 40 MB RAM. StarOffice is too slow to be useable. WordPerfect was slightly less sluggish, but so unstable as to be useless; it frequently crashed for no good reason. In addition, it didn't understand the way that my windowmanager did focus (focus-follows-mouse in fvwm), so bringing up a dialog box caused everything to hang for as much as a minute while the focus shifted rapidly from the main window to the dialog box and back. Entirely unsatisfactory. It's possible that you might have a better experience on your faster machine, but a friend with dual-processor box installed from my CD and called me the next day to ask, "Is it _supposed_ to work this badly?" Just my experience. Didn't get to try and Word documents. Rob -- Paranoid Club meeting this Friday. Now ... just try to find out where!
