At least!!! Open Office 2 is available!!! It’s still the binary beta version, but it looks much greater than the old-fashioned 1.1.5.

I downloaded it from openoffice.org, copied it to /usr/portage/distfiles, and then emerged it. I started it…and then just had to wait about 200 sec before seeing the splash window…

In fact, you either have to run a proper Java Runtime Environment (blackdown seems to give problems), or to uncheck the Java option in the preferences (which also take seconds to perform…) to make it start faster.

Now it takes:

harck@anger ~ $ time oocalc2

real 0m2.558s
user 0m1.771s
sys 0m0.153s


…and it looks great 😉

Just have to find out what Java really allows (or disallows in my case).