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The next generation office suite
The next generation office suite
Posted Mar 9, 2006 12:19 UTC (Thu) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814)Parent article: The next generation office suite
If you're interested in some information about what is going on in the OpenOffice world, I can recommend reading this interview: http://www.fosdem.org/2006/index/interviews/interviews_meeks
Among other things, it is interesting to note that they are switching to time-based releases. Another thing is that they have been working quite a bit on making in faster.
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The next generation office suite
Posted Mar 10, 2006 10:57 UTC (Fri) by gypsumfantastic (subscriber, #31134) [Link]
Michael Meeks has been telling us for years that he's working on making it faster. Working on is not succeding, however.
Now, it seems, he prefers to blame the Kernel, GLibc, prelink, whoever for OOo's manifest shortcomings in the "huge bloated pile of crap" department.
Sometimes, you just have to accept that you can't polish a turd.
The next generation office suite
Posted Mar 14, 2006 22:35 UTC (Tue) by superstoned (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
he'd have to repackage Koffice, and call it OpenOffice to make itfaster ;-)
The next generation office suite
Posted Mar 16, 2006 9:51 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785) [Link]
>Sometimes, you just have to accept that you can't polish a turd.
Well it seems that there have been quite a lot of trial to optimise the linking part of application startup (not only from OOo guys), all rejected.
I doubt that those who tried to fix the problem did it 'just for fun', there is probably also a real problem in the linker, which doesn't scale well for big apps..