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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2011, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Sindi,

>  I have an older version than that. Considerably smaller.

How much memory does it use?

Version 1.1.15 (Staroffice 7) will work without java, I read, and is only 
about 50MB download.  Someone thought java is why version 3 was taking 
forever to format a doc file and suggested replacing the 900MHz/192MB RAM
computer with something faster in order to use OpenOffice, or getting some 
more memory, but in Argentina in 2010 RAM was expensive.

The owner's solution was to migrate from XP to linux.

> > How did you disable java?
>
>  It was an option during installation.
>
>
> >  Did you use a much older version with 2.4 kernel, glibc 2.3, and gtk1?
>
>  I will look it up - not in Linux now.

Staroffice 7 (OpenOffice 1.1, 2005) required kernel 2.2, glibc 2.2 
(BL2/SW7.1 comes with 2.1.3), 64MB RAM, 250MB disk space, 800x600 with 256 
colors (or Win98 or later).  50MB download.  Staroffice 6 = OpenOffice 1.0 
(2002).  Version 1.x supported Win95.  Version 3 (2008) can import .xml.
Opera 9 can read xml.

Open source so you could in theory compile newer versions for older glibc 
and maybe kernel if no functionality is missing.

Java is mainly required for database engine and for assistive and adaptive 
technologies.  15MB additional download (for some version, for Windows?).

Ron, what do you use OpenOffice for?

Sindi

> Ron