Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-05-01 Thread Gordon
Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi Folks > > Following on from my earlier query about poor OOO 3.0 performance under > Ubuntu 9.04 Wubi, I decided to conduct an experiment. > > One of the great joys of Wubi is that it can be uninstalled in a few minutes > without having a fundamental impact on the rest o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-04-30 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi Folks Following on from my earlier query about poor OOO 3.0 performance under Ubuntu 9.04 Wubi, I decided to conduct an experiment. One of the great joys of Wubi is that it can be uninstalled in a few minutes without having a fundamental impact on the rest of your computer. I uninstalled 9

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-04-30 Thread Rob Beard
Robert Flatters wrote: > The problem i am having are two fold. the first is my graphic card, > Nvidia G4 400, the res is crap it set at 600 x400 and every time i try > and reboots a message is displayed stating that the graphics were > incorrect and it will boot up in minimum settings. > > The s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-04-30 Thread Robert Flatters
The problem i am having are two fold. the first is my graphic card, Nvidia G4 400, the res is crap it set at 600 x400 and every time i try and reboots a message is displayed stating that the graphics were incorrect and it will boot up in minimum settings. The second fold of my problem is to do wit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-04-29 Thread Kris Douglas
2009/4/29 mac : > Nigel Verity wrote: >> A few days ago I upgraded to 9.04 but was, frankly, disappointed. The >> application I use most of all is OpenOffice. The upgrade certainly >> sees boot times reduced, but OOO Base takes approx 10 times as long >> to load, Calc 5 times and Writer 3 times. Si

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-04-29 Thread mac
Nigel Verity wrote: > A few days ago I upgraded to 9.04 but was, frankly, disappointed. The > application I use most of all is OpenOffice. The upgrade certainly > sees boot times reduced, but OOO Base takes approx 10 times as long > to load, Calc 5 times and Writer 3 times. Similarly, they take muc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-04-29 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/4/29 Nigel Verity : >> A few days ago I upgraded to 9.04 but was, frankly, disappointed. The >> application I use most of all is OpenOffice. The upgrade certainly sees boot >> times reduced, but OOO Base takes approx 10 times

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-04-29 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/29 Nigel Verity : > A few days ago I upgraded to 9.04 but was, frankly, disappointed. The > application I use most of all is OpenOffice. The upgrade certainly sees boot > times reduced, but OOO Base takes approx 10 times as long to load, Calc 5 > times and Writer 3 times. Similarly, they

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

2009-04-29 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi I'm new to this forum and fairly new to Ubuntu. I've been running 8.10 under Wubi since about Christmas and have been really impressed with the OS and many of the applications. Unfortunately I can't abandon Windows completely yet as I have a large investment in MS Access applications which