Thread: [Announce] FreOffice 0.2-8 - KOffice based Document Editor released !!!!
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mscion is offline mscion
2011-03-08 , 22:33
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Originally Posted by raily View Post
thx for mentioning some alternatives. I've tried Openoffice with easy debian about a year ago and it felt to slow for me. has there been any speed improvement or do you guys run an overclocked kernel? is abiword significantly faster than openoffice?
I find that abiword on easy debian is much quicker than OO writer
The typical startup times I get where I can start typing a document are.

Open Office (starting from outside LXDE) 1minute 20 seconds
Open Office (starting from LXDE) 1 minute

Abiword (starting from outside LXDE) 20 seconds
Abiword (starting from LXDE) 10 seconds

Depending on which version of OO you have the timings can improve (up to about a factor of 2 improvement) but never come close to Abiword. On the other hand, Open Office is a little better at reproducing word documents than Abiword.

Documents to Go Premium is faster than both. But you only can, as far as I can tell, just make text documents. If you need to make equations you are out of luck. You can make equations with OO writer and Abiword.

Abiword will also output your document in Latex.

These timings are for the case where I do not overclock.
I'd like to see a similar comparison with overclocking.
Last edited by mscion; 2011-03-09 at 00:31.