> Heres what you do. Go into synaptic, select all of the OO progs, and
> just see the total MB at the bottom that your system is going to remove.
> I can tell you that MS Office is, at worst, only 2/3 the size.
The space OO.org needs is not going to require me to buy a new disk -
> I had my watch counting the seconds that it took to load OO writer, then
> did the same with MS Word under Crossover, and it was definitely more
> than 5 seconds, which might not sound a lot, but its the fact.
Less that 2 sec on my 5 year old 2ghz laptop... Is that too slow?
Personally I am finding openoffice 3.0.1 fantastic
I rarely use it though so have no reason to complain, and even less
reason to think about buying MS Office
Anton
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