On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 23:16 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > When it comes to startup times - how difficult would it be to (given > enough RAM - autodetection+manual config) preload OpenOffice and Firefox > on OS start, so it would just "be there" (like both of them are when > first started) when the user clicks the nice, little icon? Actually take a look at /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/soffice and its use of its own "pagein" program to prime the diskcache with the OOo libs. You could play around with calling pagein from your desktop login or other places. C.