On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:51:41 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Collins > > Thanks for your advice. > > - snip - > > > > 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 > With a slow machine you'll need in excess of 24 hours, my guess. I'd say forget it. > 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. > In my opinion, not much. Gentoo does setup additional startup files for writer, spreadsheet, etc., but I have no problem starting soffice (that's the name) and then selecting the appropriate document type to open. Most of the time I just grab the binary from the OO website and put the networked version it in /opt. It's going to be slow starting for you with a slow machine (particular if you don't have a lot of memory), but you can leave it running. In my case (Athlon-XP 1800+ with 512M) it's about 10 seconds to start. For you it could be as much as a minute. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
