From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 04:06:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 071E716A4B3 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40406.mail.yahoo.com (web40406.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8ACE943F3F for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:06:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from catlord17@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20031014110653.81013.qmail@web40406.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.75.75.85] by web40406.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:06:53 PDT Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 04:06:53 -0700 (PDT) From: RexFelis To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20031010201819.GD49778@q.closedsrc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Building OO from ports. X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:06:54 -0000 --- Linh Pham wrote: > On 2003-10-10 13:03 -0700, RexFelis > wrote: > > # I built OO from ports on a dial up > connection. > # Twice. What takes a long time is downloading > # everything. The compiling takes only a few > hours > # on my computer (1.533 GHz, 512 megs ram). > > Downloading the main source tarball and the > Mozilla tarball that it uses > does take quite a while. > > Compile times depend mostly on the speed of the > processor, amount of > memory and the speed of the hard drive. It took > my P3-800 laptop with a > 4200RPM hard drive over 12 hours to compile. My > P3-500 with 256MB of RAM > and a 7200RPM hard drive took over 20 hours to > compile. > > Then on my dual Xeon 2.4 under 5.1-RELEASE (SMP > enabled) took under 4 > hours to complete the build and install. > > For me, I definitely notice a nice boost in the > program's response when > building it from ports compared to using the > latest binary package. I have been doing a lot of writing lately, and I have the equivalent of a novelette built so far (16,700 words). It's given me the opportunity to test out OO in a variety of ways. It loads faster from ports than it does under Linux Mandrake from pre-packaged install, that's for sure. And from the experience I had last time I tried to build OO, it works a whole hell of a lot better now. I dare say it works the way it was intended to, meaning everything compiled correctly. Last time I was missing things (like the spellchecking dictionary... thesaurus... and a few other things). I must say, the port maintainers do a fantastic job, and I send them my thanks and kudos. It has definitely been worth the effort to build OO. And it gives me such a sense of delight that we have such a wonderful thing as this in ports! I have to say, TextMaker's got me seriously intrigued, though. Shannon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com