On Saturday 27 August 2005 07:50 pm, 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. > 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". I'd use openoffice-ximian-bin.
Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman ________________________________________ Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | ________________________________________| -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
