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 1E9NaL-0007xs-Ve for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:52:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7SDnvUS025487; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:49:57 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7SDjlqv013885 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:45:47 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 28 Aug 2005 13:47:32 -0000 Received: from c150026.adsl.hansenet.de (EHLO [192.168.2.189]) [213.39.150.26] by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 28 Aug 2005 15:47:32 +0200 X-Authenticated: #25576946 Message-ID: <4311C0FC.6010800@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:49:48 +0200 From: Marco Matthies User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openofficeq References: <024c01c5ab62$35d23340$0501a8c0@croatus> In-Reply-To: <024c01c5ab62$35d23340$0501a8c0@croatus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 06313cf8-b63c-4dbd-99bf-b3154186926a X-Archives-Hash: 5f8554d1e02f95f784dfad8eb82e152e John Dangler wrote: > 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. Google for ximian openoffice to find the new homepage, please. I really doubt that this will become a commercial product (and it might not even be possible due to the licensing, i don't know which license they use), though i'm not really informed what's going on in the openoffice world. > 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". Don't know about the merits of openoffice-ximian vs openoffice. Use openoffice-bin / openoffice-ximian-bin (precompiled binaries), and save yourself a lot of time, the compile takes _ages_. You can see your options by issuing a emerge -s openoffice to search for ebuilds containing the words openoffice. Marco -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list