I can confirm this on ubuntu edgy (on both the nfs server and client). Launching openoffice on a NFS-mounted home directory took forever. Installing nfs-common solved this problem (and many other performance- related problems).
BUT even with nfs-common, openoffice has some remaining problems, like crash on exit and random errors while saving. I am running it through "ssh -X" for now but other might not have/want openoffice on their nfs- server! -- Openoffice.org2 cannot write to NFS files https://launchpad.net/bugs/40537 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
