Sixty Hours of Failure!

[elfs]

After sixty hours of construction, the build of Open Office failed. You know why? The build took too long, and the sandbox monitor assumed that the time difference between the start of the build and the end indicated a security problem! So it killed the build and erased all progress.

I'll live with other tools. I don't need open office. AbiWord supports Open Document for word processing, and Gnumeric is doing a more-than-adequate job of being a spreadsheet. And I can always use S5 for presentations. As for databases, SQLite is totally rockin'.

On the other hand, I had a distinct pleasure last night: I ran Starcraft under Linux. I can now play the game without having to boot into GameOS. Very cool.

Comments

[casualprofessor.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... when I build OpenOffice, I'm not using source. I never have a problem; it always builds within 5-10 minutes.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*snerk* What did I tell you about Gentoo and old skool? */tease*

You're probably right, though. OpenOffice is a pig even already compiled; it's a bigger package than the kernel, which as you know is thumping huge. The only reason I put up with it is that most of my hardware is actually fast enough to cope with it, if barely. If you really need to use it, you can always nab the Ubuntu LiveCD and run it from there. No compilation necessary. But, yes, AbiWord has become quite the capable little WP of late...

How'd you manage the Starcraft bit? They release a port, or did you get a new emulator?

Starcraft Build

[(Anonymous)]

I, too, would like to know how you got Starcraft working. Speaking of which, are there any particular websites / resources you go to when trying to get a game running under Linux?

Re: Starcraft Build

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Starcraft ran "out of the box" under Wine 0.9, the beta release. I just put in the CD, mounted it, and ran "wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe" and it worked great. I've created a /bin/sh file to run it automatically now, so I can just click on the link and off I go.

Wine 0.9 seems to be a real headache with arcane security modules and directX support, neither of which Starcraft requires. I couldn't get BloodRayne or even Dark Forces II to run, but both Warcraft 2 and Starcraft ran great.

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

emerge openoffice-bin?

Works...

[(Anonymous)]

...unless you're trying to get OpenOffice 2 Beta installed. The -bin only exists for the older 1.x OpenOffice line.

[lovingboth]

The joys of Gentoo: tens of hours spent compiling so that your PC spends 0.001% more time in the idle loop.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Heh. The fact that my PC might spend any time in an idle loop surprises me! Besides, I have no objection to my PC doing compilations; that's whan sleep periods are for.