OpenOffice.org 3.1 released [LWN.net]

OpenOffice.org 3.1 released

Posted May 8, 2009 6:59 UTC (Fri) by ppedroni (subscriber, #6592)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org 3.1 released by dlang
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 3.1 released

> have you tried compiling openoffice?

I routinely do. Not impossible, just long: more than two hours (maybe
three) on a 2.4 GHz AMD Athlon 64 4600+, with 4 GB of DDR-1 RAM.

> even gentoo ships binaries by default.

Not really. They have both binaries and source: the choice is, as usually,
up to the user.

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OpenOffice.org 3.1 released

Posted May 8, 2009 9:49 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

Bah. I remember leaving the machine running overnight to compile a new kernel...