Kimi, what sort of box are you running this on.  I've made the mistake of 
rolling OO under KDE on a Pentium II with 128 MB RAM, ouch, very painful.

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, George Toft wrote:

> Kimi Adams wrote:
> > 
> > As many of you know, about a month ago I installed Mandrake 8.2 on my
> > desktop, mostly out of frustration and need.  My administrator did the
> > work. I have struggled with learning things over, after 20 successful
> > years of MS'ing.
> > 
> > The problem is that when I launch Open Office, from the favorites menu,
> > it takes a minute or two or more to get past the opening logo screen.
> > THEN as if it's not bad enough, it either just stops opening after the
> > logo screen goes away or when it actually opens the program, the cursor
> > stops blinking and it suddenly closes within the first few seconds of
> > being open.
> > 
> > I have not researched this issue, but I have talked to two other people
> > that say it seems like a bad install or that maybe resources are messing
> > with it.
> > 
> > Any suggestion that will actually fix the problem?
> > 
> > Kimi
> > 
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> StarOffice.
> 
> I saw Star Office 6.0 at Fry's for $24.95.  I tried OO - 2 hours later I
> ran:
> 	rpm -e OpenOffice
> and went back to StarOffice 5.2.  Works like a champ.
> 
> I am totally mystified how an organization can take an excellent product
> like SO 5.2, and insert a shiton of bugs, but the OO group has succeeded
> quite well.
> 
> George
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