[NBLUG/talk] Distributing OpenOffice to schools

[Bill Kendrick]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:33:53PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> It might be possible to set up a computer with a minimal window manager such 
> 
> as fvwm or any of the other lightweights that have been mentioned, and have 
> OpenOffice start up immediately.  It would also be possible to cause the 
> user to log out as soon as OpenOffice closes, but I don't think I'd want to 
> go *that* far.

I think I've also heard of a version of OpenOffice.org which is
'prelinked,' which means it comes up quite a bit faster.  (Still dog slow,
but not AS dog slow ;^) )

What it does is kind of 'get around' the whole class name mangling
(or whatever it is) that has to happen when a C++ app first starts up.


I'm pretty _sure_ it was OOo that I saw doing this.  It could've been
Mozilla. ;^)  I'll see if I can remember who showed it to me, and ask them
which it was, and where they got it.  (Pretty sure this was for Debian Woody)

-bill!

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