Re: [Nolug] best excel replacement?

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 21:11, Alex McKenzie wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Ah, a laptop with a tiny HD, eh?
> >
> > Well, gnumeric is good, but not great for interaction w/ Excel.
> >
> > Would you gain some more space if you re-installed S8.1, while
> > re-partitioning to have 1 big partition, plus 1 384MB swap partition?
> >
>
> Let's call that not an option. It's doable, but not worth it. I have no
> cdrom, and I've got things setup the way I like it. I can make more
> room, another 500MB easily, up to 1GB, but how much space am I gonna
> need ?!?
>
> Why the worry about swap, you gonna suggest staroffice? :P I've got a
> 600 MB swap, and I've never used more than 50 MB. It was 220, but i
> started messing with swsusp. I could almost use that old swap partition
> as a kernel compiling space...

It was just just the 2xRAM formula...

A fully installed OOo 1.0.3 is ~300MB. 1.1b seems to be about 200MB,
which is surprising. Note, also, that I don't think you have to install
all of OOo, so that may lessen the disk footprint.

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Jefferson, LA USA
"(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and 
make them into big productions."
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