[Pc_Support] OpenOffice v2 beta usage in production setting?

[Austin Denyer (Ozz)]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 12:26:31 -0400, "Damien McKenna"
<dmckenna at thelimucompany.com> wrote:

> Is anyone using OOo v2 builds in production settings?  I'm in charge
> of creating the new OS build for our new workstations at work and I'm
> looking to standardize on many OSS tools, mainly Firefox and OOo.

I can't speak for the Windoze version, but the Linux version of OOo2
takes a LOOOOOONG time to load.  Once it's loaded it's pretty sweet and
reasonably snappy (as long as you have plenty of RAM), but you do need
some serious hardware if you're planning to impress anyone.  

By way of an example, I just tried it on a Dual-Processor Pentium III
(2x750MHz) with 768 Megs of RAMBUS memory, a fresh (as of this morning)
install of Debian Testing with 2.6.8-2-SMP kernel and IceWM, and it took
close to 2 minutes to load oowriter2!

It took around 40 secs to load oowriter2 on this box (3.0GHz AMD64, 1
Gig RAM, IceWM, Debian Pure64 native with OOo2 in a 32-bit Sid chroot),
although to be fair I'm hitting this box pretty hard right now, as the
following clip from top shows:

Mem:   1023320k total,  1001832k used,    21488k free,   121672k buffers
Swap:  1951856k total,  1118200k used,   833656k free,   505316k cached

Regards,
Ozz.