speeding up OpenOffice?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

My two suggestions:

1) Try AbiWord.  It might not work (I've never used it), but it might be
   less bloated.

2) Get more memory.  256M really isn't enough to do lots of stuff.  Once you
   get firefox running, you're toast.  Starting OOo on top of that and you're
   into swap-hell.  I'd recommend you upgrade to 1GB ram.  A DIMM will cost
   you about $200 (or less!) and you'll be much happier.

-derek

Quoting Seth Gordon <sethg at ropine.com>:

> My wife routinely curses OpenOffice, because of the time it takes to
> load and the way it brings the rest of her system to a screeching halt.
> (This is an Inspiron 1100 with a 2.4GHz Celeron and 256 MB of RAM
> running Ubuntu "Dapper Drake".)  Is there some trick, some
> --disable-cruft option that I can set when recompiling the whole thing,
> that would make the experience less painful for her?  Is there a
> lighter-weight word processor that is good at reading and writing the MS
> Word files that the rest of the universe insists on sending to her?  (In
> practice, she's only using that part of OO; I already installed gnumeric
> so she doesn't have to deal with the OpenOffice spreadsheet program.)
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