Comments on: Linkblogging for 30/09/08 http://andrewhickey.info/2008/09/30/linkblogging-for-300908/ Thoughts on music, science, politics and comics. Mostly comics. Sun, 20 May 2012 17:49:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: PerfDave http://andrewhickey.info/2008/09/30/linkblogging-for-300908/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:59:19 +0000 http://olsenbloom.wordpress.com/?p=160#comment-220 Well, I might not expect OOo to run on, say, a FreeRunner smartphone without some tweaking… but an EeePC 700 series is basically a low-end desktop sort of specification, which I’d expect to run OOo if it were in a desktop case rather than a UMPC form-factor.

]]> By: olsenbloom http://andrewhickey.info/2008/09/30/linkblogging-for-300908/comment-page-1/#comment-218 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:01:41 +0000 http://olsenbloom.wordpress.com/?p=160#comment-218 That comment seemed absurd to me, too – *yes* I would expect the standard Office suite to run on *every single piece of hardware you throw it at*. Personally I very rarely touch that monstrosity – I use AbiWord and Gnumeric (although the current Debian unstable package of AbiWord, which I have on my machine, is broken so I use OOo right now…)

]]> By: PerfDave http://andrewhickey.info/2008/09/30/linkblogging-for-300908/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:49:44 +0000 http://olsenbloom.wordpress.com/?p=160#comment-217 One of the things I like about the KDE project is that they’re making some efforts to keep system requirements down – part of the quality assurance for the project involves running applications remotely over high-latency connections to check that the user interface isn’t too “busy”, and it’s claimed that the new KDE 4 series has the same minimum specs as KDE 3.

As for one of the comments in the article – yes, I would expect OpenOffice.org to run nicely on an EeePC, and it’s a testament to the bad decisions made during the OOo 2 development phase (turning it into a Java/C++ hybrid to satisfy Sun) that it doesn’t.

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