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Ernie Schroder wrote: |
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>On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:00 am, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Klosa to |
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>>I have used both versions. The compiled version seems to be more stable on |
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>>my system. |
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>I've installed OO both ways in the past and stability hasn't been an issue. |
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>The only thing I noticed is that the compiled version opens faster than the |
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>binary version. As I remember, the difference was roughly 7 seconds. It seems |
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>like an eternity these days but if I weigh that 7 seconds against the time it |
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>took to compile, I would have to open the application around 4,100 times to |
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>make the 8 hours it took to compile worth my while. |
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>>Uwe |
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>>Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: |
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>>>Joseph wrote: |
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>>>>Is there a benefit of compiling Openoffice 2.0 vs. installing from |
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>>>>binary. |
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>>>>I've AMD 1.8Mhz with 1Gb or Ram and it has been compiling OO 2.0 for |
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>>>>7-hours already. |
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>>>It's likely to take somewhere around 8-11 hours on such a machine. It |
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>>>took somewhere around 10 hours for me on a 1500 MHz Athlon XP with 1 GB |
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>>>RAM. |
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>>>Whether or not you can benefit from compiling is unknown to me. But it's |
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>>>more fun ;) |
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>>>- |
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>>>Kristian Poul Herkild |
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Well, this is what I have to worry about: |
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> >>> Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/OOO_2_0_0-core.tar.bz2 |
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> --07:39:04-- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/OOO_2_0_0-core.tar.bz2 |
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> => `/usr/portage/distfiles/OOO_2_0_0-core.tar.bz2' |
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> Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52 |
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> Connecting to gentoo.osuosl.org|64.50.238.52|:80... connected. |
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> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK |
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> Length: 157,108,531 (150M) [application/x-tar] |
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> 0% |
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> [ |
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> ] 1,019,392 2.78K/s ETA 15:29:44 |
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15 hours to download just that part. There is likely to be even more |
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than that. |
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I still like to compile my own. It is why I chose Gentoo, everything is |
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from source. If I wanted binaries, I could have stuck with Mandrake. |
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Plus as someone said above, it is more fun. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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