The OpenOffice.org team has released OpenOffice.org 2.0.4. This release is mainly a bugfix release. You can download it form the OpenOffice.org website, and if you want to know if your pet bug has been fixed, have fun digging through the changelog.
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Member since:2005-11-11
//Instead of pointing to article with invalid benchmarks (according to my own test) do yourself a favour: install version 2.0.4 and test it. It will take some 5 minutes. Then you will see that article you a reffering to is load of BS. Windows has *NO* office components integrated and started on Windows startup that I ever heard of. Explorer has, maybe that is what you are talking about?//
Windows doesn't have an Office preloader - Office does.
When you install MS Office on a Windows machine, a preloader for Office (similar to quickstart) is installed. {Edit required, this was wrong==> The only thing not similar to OOo quickstart about this is that you can't turn it off without uninstalling Office.} edit to ==> Most people run this because they don't know it was installed. Office 2003 apparently no longer makes it the default to have it enabled.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826318
When you start Windows, BTW, the GUI comes up well before the "start" has finished. Windows brings up the GUI and enables menus before it has finished doing tasks such as preloading Office components. This is why the hard disk continues to work for some time after you might think Windows has started.
I loaded OOo 2.0.4-5 on my PCLinuxOS install. This is a rather mundane machine, AMD Athlon 2800, 512MB. kernel ver = 2.6.16.27. KDE ver = 3.5.5.
Without quickstart enabled, 6 seconds startup on first load, 3 seconds for subsequent starts.
BTW - the author of the article I linked to did say that "YMMV".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YMMV
Edited 2006-10-16 13:33
Member since:2005-08-12
"Without quickstart enabled, 6 seconds startup on first load, 3 seconds for subsequent starts. "
Thats correct, we have 3-6 secs. Now try to start MS Word and you'll get 0.5 sec. I have MS Office 2002 and process osa.exe you mentioned is not in my process list. Actually I am sure that none of processes currently running on my computer has anything to do with MS Office.
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2005-08-12
RE: "Thirdly, they have fixed the startup time.
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/71233/index.html"
Instead of pointing to article with invalid benchmarks (according to my own test) do yourself a favour: install version 2.0.4 and test it. It will take some 5 minutes. Then you will see that article you a reffering to is load of BS. Windows has *NO* office components integrated and started on Windows startup that I ever heard of. Explorer has, maybe that is what you are talking about?