[CLUE-Tech] Open Office

[Brandon N]

> Another thing that I'll point out is that Sun has announced that the 
> next version of StarOffice (6.0 I think) will load as seperate 
> components so you won't need to load the whole office suite every
> time 
> you want to edit a small document.  I'm not sure if you'll be able to
> 
> install seperately, but I would think so.

For those of you interested, you can downloaded beta's of Open Office
(StarOffice)  at www.openoffice.org  I installed it on my Sun at work
and it is much much faster, although currently the documentation is a
bit lacking and it took me a while to figure out how to access anything
other than StarWriter.


Brandon

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"Jed S. Baer" wrote:

> Building glibc from source might be more difficult, dunno, haven't done
> it. Using an RPM is just a matter of the download, and any dependencies
> that might get broken.

I have heard that programs compiled against one glibc would have to be recompiled (maybe
just relinked?) with a new glibc.  Perhaps that is just for major upgrades.

> Does the debian package install a stock modular kernel, with every
> module built? I like to build the kernel, so I can enable processor
> specific code, and build a few things which get more use into it,
> instead of as modules.

It does.  I don't bother to customize, since that would mean installing gcc and other
development tools (the debian machine is a production server).  It uses a 2 step boot
process with a ram disk (so it doesn't need disk/filesystem drivers built in).  They do
provide different packages for e.g., K6 and pentium processors.

I like having all the modules available.  When I added a CD writer, all I had to do was
tweak modules.conf per the HOWTO and everything else was automagic.  It don't get much
better'n that.

Dave