From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9AWR-0007OA-6m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:55:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7RNr8DQ000715; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:53:08 GMT Received: from smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net (smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net [209.208.0.105]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7RNnZ9d020199 for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:49:36 GMT Received: (qmail 32694 invoked by uid 0); 27 Aug 2005 23:51:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO croatus) (209.208.34.71) by smtp-2u-1g.atlantic.net with SMTP; 27 Aug 2005 23:51:14 -0000 From: "John Dangler" To: Subject: [gentoo-user] openofficeq Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:50:38 -0400 Message-ID: <024c01c5ab62$35d23340$0501a8c0@croatus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7RNnZ9d020199 X-Archives-Salt: cb305855-38e5-4b21-9e7d-0f7d87a16f0c X-Archives-Hash: 09809f4668d78addeedb94fd6a49919b I know this isn't really the Gentoo (read - Linux) way, but, since I'm using this for business apps, I need to take the end users point of view for a moment. Open Office or the "Ximianized" Open Office. I read that Ximian was bought by Novell, so I'm wondering which of these two portage packages to get. www.ximian.org is no longer, apparently, so I'm wondering when this will turn into a commercial (read - for sale) product. I read that the ximianized version is faster to load and run, and I also read that open office takes a long time to compile, so I'd hate to put the Ximianized version together and then find out somewhere down the road that I'd have to dump it and go to the other version. Any insight here is greatly appreciated. I'm finally (after 3 days and nights) getting to the end of having a "basic functioning laptop". John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list