Go-OO: The best office suite you never knew you used
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 193.166.94.185]
on December 04, 2008 10:29 PM
"However, what most people notice is Go-OO's greater speed, including shorter startup and faster response times."
ArchLinux has openoffice version 300m9 (Build:9358) and Debian has the exact same version in their experimental repo. To my best knowledge, ArchLinux uses the Sun version of openoffice, while Debian has the Go-OO version. I happen to have both distros installed on a computer with Intel dual-core 2.00GHz CPU, so I thought I could test the startup times on these two systems. On ArchLinux openoffice writer took 6 seconds to start, while in Debian it took 9 seconds. So, according to my experience, Go-OO is not quite as good as it claims to be. It's considerably slower to start than the Sun version. (However, I don't know if ArchLinux has added any patches to speed up the startup time.)
The advantage I see in the Debian version (Go-OO) over the ArchLinux version (from Sun) is that in Debian I can install just the writer component while in ArchLinux I need to install the whole openoffice suite, even though I just need the writer. Also, Debian has skin packages that make openoffice look good in GNOME or KDE while in ArchLinux I haven't found similar skin packages.
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Go-OO: The best office suite you never knew you used
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 193.166.94.185] on December 04, 2008 10:29 PMArchLinux has openoffice version 300m9 (Build:9358) and Debian has the exact same version in their experimental repo. To my best knowledge, ArchLinux uses the Sun version of openoffice, while Debian has the Go-OO version. I happen to have both distros installed on a computer with Intel dual-core 2.00GHz CPU, so I thought I could test the startup times on these two systems. On ArchLinux openoffice writer took 6 seconds to start, while in Debian it took 9 seconds. So, according to my experience, Go-OO is not quite as good as it claims to be. It's considerably slower to start than the Sun version. (However, I don't know if ArchLinux has added any patches to speed up the startup time.)
The advantage I see in the Debian version (Go-OO) over the ArchLinux version (from Sun) is that in Debian I can install just the writer component while in ArchLinux I need to install the whole openoffice suite, even though I just need the writer. Also, Debian has skin packages that make openoffice look good in GNOME or KDE while in ArchLinux I haven't found similar skin packages.
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