Am Montag, den 13.10.2008, 23:47 +0100 schrieb Timothy Murphy: > Perhaps there should be a warning somewhere, "If you are a Linux user, > do not read the Software Users Manual. > Instead type Ctrl-Alt-T, and you will be in familiar territory. LOL! That was cool... > If you click on Work=>Documents on my EeePC you are taken to Star Office. > There is no mention that I see of OpenOffice. ?? Well, I have the 900 linux-model. Xandros default installs with OO. I just checked a minute ago. Only the Windows-preinstalled version comes with StarOffice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC#Software > >> > *If you want to use for development, work in your office, I wouldn't > >> > encourage it, the SSD behaves too slow. > The SSD does not seem particularly slow to me ... Well, in fact it is. The SSD takes about the same or twice the time of a HD to read operations (my own test); but it takes two to four times to make write ops. That leads to my next answer: > > But as you said, you don't need it for a heavy work. > I don't know what you mean by "heavy work". > I don't believe in storing information on a laptop, > if that is what you mean. No. Storing documents/sheets/mails is really what Eee's are designed for. If you try to develop, like, say, with Eclipse, while running apache, and a couple of heavy pages on Firefox for you app and debugging... ah. That's heavy work. Needs a lot of RAM, makes a lot of r/w ops. There you will taste the slown-eee-ss. Just try the full "yum update" (say, 300Mb): packages will download normally. But when the actual upgrading starts... turn the TV on. (obviously, comparing the same process with a PC with a hard disk). A note: read somewhere that windows installing requires a full day. Didn't and wouldn't test. Maybe you should try Fedora to convince yourself. Maybe you'll not bother with some more boot time seconds(20? 30?), with the Firefox 3 heavyness, with the recurrent atheros drivers compiling (maybe next kernel includes it). Good Luck! -- Rodolfo Alcazar Responsable red y datos Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH Programa de Apoyo a la Gestión Pública Descentralizada y Lucha Contra La Pobreza - PADEP Av. Sánchez Lima 2226 La Paz, Bolivia Tel: +591 22417628 (121) Fax: +591 22417628 (126) Web: www.padep.org.bo Email: rodolfo.alcazar@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
