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Posted: Sep. 13 2004,12:03

the OO.dsl needs this much ram because it copies all of the oo package in ram. if you use the .uci the oo package is mounted ( use very little memory)

there is NOTHING you can do to make OO start faster but buy a real fast computer
at startup OO loads a LOT of libraries. this takes time.

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Posted: Sep. 13 2004,12:07

oo.dsl needs 384MB of RAM, IF YOU ARE RUNNING FROM LIVECD.

It needs the 384MB to create a ramdisk for the *.dsl file contents.

This is not true if you are adding oo to a hd-installed system.

However, I would not expect to see a big increase in performance because your original (from source) OpenOffice was also installed to your hard disk.

I would still give it a try. Can't hurt to try.

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Posted: Sep. 13 2004,12:09

OO.dsl needs a lot of RAM if you use run it from live-cd, but is it really so if you install OO.dsl on a hd-install? My impression is that OO.dsl is faster on my machine than if I install openoffice using apt-get for instance. I haven't really tested this thoroughly, but I have done hd-install of dsl and installed OO.dsl, and another time done a hd-install of dsl on the same computer but then installing openoffice via apt-get. My impression (which is not more than an impression of course) is that OO.dsl is faster.

I run dsl hd-installed on a computer with 56MB ram, and running OO is of course slow, but perfectly doable. I prefer lighter apps like abiword and especially ted though, for that computer at least.

-r

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Posted: Sep. 13 2004,12:10

Ops. You already answered the question while I was typing, cbagger. Thanks.

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Posted: Sep. 13 2004,12:20

What is .uci? Is it a part of Mydsl?

@cbagger01
I ll give it a try.

@reldar
My computer has 48MB RAM. The startup time is not a problem. The main problem is every time I press the keyboard to begin writing the computer starts to swap.

Why is OO on your system with 56MB RAM doable and not doable on my system

@guest
What are your system specs?

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