Hi Ernie,From what I've seen, having installed both the binary and the source builds of OO, The source build starts a bit quicker but I notice no difference at least in the OO writer part. Even if it took 5 seconds longer to open, I figure I would have to open it about 15,000 times before I would gain back the time spend building from source. Is it worth it? depends on how often you use it. If you were to open OO 5 times a day, it would take 3 years to see a benefit.Compile from source: Requires many hours and 4-5G temp work space (!!!!).
1. emerge openoffice 2. emerge openoffice-ximian
Install binary:
1. emerge openoffice-bin 2. Download an openoffice binary tarball 3. Dowload an openoffice-ximian tarball.
I'm lazy; I prefer the binary install. Some people swear by the
-ximian builds, but I haven't noticed a lot of difference.
Space is not a problem to me. I am running Gentoo 1.4 on a slow PC-AMD, K7 with 40G hard drive. But speed is a major problem. I took 72 hours to install Gentoo 1.4
If I download OO1.1 tarball from OO website and start its
installation, it will be much quicker. Is there any difference
compared with compiling it from Gentoo ebuild.
I recognize the slow-start of OO doc. from RH box. I tried to accelerate its start with Quickstarter (oooqs-2.0.2) without success. I only start OOwriter 15-20 times daily.
I am searching for another application from open source to replace OO. But up to now in my personal opinion OO is the best to read/edit MSWord/Excel documents
Anyway, thanks for your information.
B.Regards Stephen
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