[geeks] OpenOffice released for Irix

[Kurt Huhn]

Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:

> Wow... I have a 700MHz Athlon with 512MB of RAM... running Slackware
> Linux 9 and OO's swriter takes over 15 seconds to start up the first
> time.
> 

I'll admit, that's relatively slow.  MS Word takes the same amount of
time to load on my SunPCi2 card.

> 
> Still it does make for a M$ Office replacement, and I'm really glad it
> is moving to other platforms.
> 
> I'm going to have to get a friend of mine to try it on his Irix
> machines.  
> 

Be sure they're MIPS4 machines - apparently this build of OO won't run
on anything less.

> My Sun's are too slow for it.
> 
> Oh... what machine are you running OO on?
> 

R12k-300Mhz Octane.  

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