On Wednesday 30 November 2005 08:49 am, a tiny voice compelled Dale to write: > Ernie Schroder wrote: > >On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:00 am, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Klosa > > to > > > >write: > >>I have used both versions. The compiled version seems to be more stable > >> on my system. > > > >I've installed OO both ways in the past and stability hasn't been an > > issue. The only thing I noticed is that the compiled version opens faster > > than the binary version. As I remember, the difference was roughly 7 > > seconds. It seems like an eternity these days but if I weigh that 7 > > seconds against the time it took to compile, I would have to open the > > application around 4,100 times to make the 8 hours it took to compile > > worth my while. > > > >>Uwe > >> > >>Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > >>>Joseph wrote: > >>>>Is there a benefit of compiling Openoffice 2.0 vs. installing from > >>>>binary. > >>>> > >>>>I've AMD 1.8Mhz with 1Gb or Ram and it has been compiling OO 2.0 for > >>>>7-hours already. > >>> > >>>It's likely to take somewhere around 8-11 hours on such a machine. It > >>>took somewhere around 10 hours for me on a 1500 MHz Athlon XP with 1 GB > >>>RAM. > >>> > >>>Whether or not you can benefit from compiling is unknown to me. But it's > >>>more fun ;) > >>> > >>>- > >>>Kristian Poul Herkild > > Well, this is what I have to worry about: > > >>> Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/OOO_2_0_0-core.tar.bz2 > > > > --07:39:04-- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/OOO_2_0_0-core.tar.bz2 > > => `/usr/portage/distfiles/OOO_2_0_0-core.tar.bz2' > > Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52 > > Connecting to gentoo.osuosl.org|64.50.238.52|:80... connected. > > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > > Length: 157,108,531 (150M) [application/x-tar] > > > > 0% > > [ > > ] 1,019,392 2.78K/s ETA 15:29:44 > > 15 hours to download just that part. There is likely to be even more > than that. > > I still like to compile my own. It is why I chose Gentoo, everything is > from source. If I wanted binaries, I could have stuck with Mandrake. > Plus as someone said above, it is more fun. > > Dale > > :-) > > -- > To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
Granted it's more fun (I think) but I have other interests that I would rather engage in. I just installed openoffice-bin in 7 minutes and 7 seconds including D'load time. I've recently done 11 months worth of updates on this box and have about 40 hours of build time on it in the last 10 days. I want to use it, not watch more text fly by on the console. OO is not an application I use daily. I have it installed because I need it maybe twice a week. It's just not worth 12 hours of 95% cpu load to me to compile it. By all means, if you spend several hours a day using OO, compile it from source. You will see a performance gain. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free 09:04:36 up 18:51, 5 users, load average: 3.25, 1.98, 1.08 Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
