New Gnumeric [LWN.net]

GnomeDesktop points to two articles about Gnumeric, which plans to release version 1.2.0 soon.

Here is a review of Gnumeric beta 1.1.19 is available from ILUG-Cal. (Found here)

LinMagAu has an interview with Jody Goldberg and Andreas L. Guelzow. (Found here)

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New Gnumeric

Posted Sep 3, 2003 13:05 UTC (Wed) by wweber (guest, #11678) [Link]

Tested on a reasonably low-end machine (500MHz Celeron, 192MB RAM), it practically leaps onto the screen

This reminds me why I keep some 2.0 distributions kicking around: they run on older systems. Linux, or at least its applications, has become more demanding of resources. You know, Excel "leaps onto the screen" on this 266MHz 96MB notebook I'm using; I can just imagine how much faster it would load on the reviewer's box.

When will the Linux applications catch up in terms of efficiency? What MS user is going to buy bigger hardware in order to take advantage of the GNU/Linux world of applications? Just because this reviewer evidently replaces his computer every year doesn't speak for the rest of the computer-using public.

Leaping

Posted Sep 4, 2003 2:58 UTC (Thu) by jasone (guest, #2423) [Link]

The insinuation that a Celeron 500 MHz machine is high end hardly seems reasonable. The reviewer's machine was an economical (not high end) choice in about 1999. A machine that is 4+ years old is better thought of as something of an artifact -- many machines die in that amount of time.