Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:38:50 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux? |
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On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Khimenko Victor wrote:
>>>It's either this or they have to static link! This would turn it into >>>real big bloat-ware, it is very large. 5.0's installation program >>>is more complete, but you still have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and, >>>if you want their library cached, fix up /etc/ld.so.config. > >> And what is the difference between static linking, and dynamic >> linking that requires a specially distributed shared library that >> must be used? > >> I fail to see the difference. If the shared library isn't the >> one that everything else on the system uses, then IT ISN'T >> SHARED. In other words, if commercial program A required library >> B to be used, and only program A is using it, then nothing is >> sharing the library, and the application might as well statically >> link in the first place as it will consume the same resources, >> and perhaps be a bit slower due to dynamic linking. > >Not at all :-)) It's not uncommon to have more then one executable in single >product (see BlackDown JDK for example). Even if there are special version >of glibc provided (actually just late version of glibc 2.0.7) it's still win >since few programs from the same product can use SHARED library...
Correct, but it is still a hog anyways, and any benefit of the shared libs only exists when multiple apps actually are running simultaneously. StarOffice is one binary if I recall correctly, so no matter what part of it you are using, the shared libs are not being shared. And certainly not with the rest of the system.
I like Star, but I dumped it. Too much of a hog. It takes way too much memory on my system, and I have 64M. The system slows down massively, and swaps. It takes AGES to start the beast up, and I have a 200Mhz processor.
I've switched to WP8 now instead which is much faster. I'll try SO 6 out when it arrives, and then see how it runs. Hopefully they'll switch to a Linux GUI like GTK or QT by then.
-- Mike A. Harris Linux advocate GNU advocate Computer Consultant Open Source advocate
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