Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Wed Feb 15 18:10:11 UTC 2006


Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:42 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:

> One suggestion, a while back openoffice on my laptop was taking a long
> time to load.  I tracked the problem down to the dictionary system which
> was loading a number of languages which I did not need or want.  I
> believe I found a message on this list which detailed how to disable all
> languages except the one I used.  This dramatically improved the load
> time of the application.

I believe I have removed all the language packs. That sped up
(if you can believe it) the loading of OO for me. It used to
take longer.

Mike
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