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Re: [Computerbank] Re: [cai-sa] Teen Challenge -Network

To: Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [Computerbank] Re: [cai-sa] Teen Challenge -Network
From: David Lloyd <dlloyd@microbits.com.au>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:33:57 +0930
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Daniel,

> AbiWord and OOo are both, in my ever so humble opinion, unmitigated
> pieces of shit.

Your opinions are never humble.

> OOo took 15min to load its base word processor on my P233MMX laptop,
> and was extremely sluggish when it finally loaded (it was lagging a
> full paragraph behind at some stage), and this was with nothing else
> but twm loaded.

OpenOffice is slow. However that doesn't make the concept or what it is
trying to do "shit" - it just makes it inappropriate for very slow
machines which is often what ComputerBank gets landed with...

DSL
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Follow-Ups:
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References:
- Re: [Computerbank] Re: [cai-sa] Teen Challenge -Network
  - From: Daniel Stone <dstone@kde.org>
- Re: [Computerbank] Re: [cai-sa] Teen Challenge -Network
  - From: Peter Gossner <gossner@arcom.com.au>
- Re: [Computerbank] Re: [cai-sa] Teen Challenge -Network
  - From: Kylie Davies <mailkylie@optushome.com.au>
- Re: [Computerbank] Re: [cai-sa] Teen Challenge -Network
  - From: Romana Challans <romana@timelady.com>
- Re: [Computerbank] Re: [cai-sa] Teen Challenge -Network
  - From: Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au>

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