Hi!
The prelink friendly binary unfortunately is not the default in FC1, but you can speed up OOo start by: ln -sf soffice2.bin /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin as root.
ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/openoffice.org/ contains openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 packages which differ from 1.1.0-6 as present in FC1 in 2 things: a) soffice2.bin is the default, so you don't have to run the above command to speed it up b) it has been compiled with -Os. This seems to save 9MB on allocated library size and e.g. when running oowriter should cut the total size of libraries loaded from around 71MB to ~ 66MB (by ~ 5.25MB). In theory this should speed up OO.o startup time especially when caches are cold (ie. when running oowriter the first time after boot). I've tried to measure some numbers with time(1): cold are after running cat 2.8GB file > /dev/null, hot are 3rd up to 5th invocations of the program, each measurement repeated 3 times. The first numbers are from the default 1.1.0-6 oowriter, second with 1.1.0-6 after ln -sf soffice2.bin /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin and third with 1.1.0-6.1 default. Dual PIII, 651MHz. Measuring with time is of course very inaccurate.
oowriter soffice1.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6 prelinked cold real 0m21.010s 0m18.963s 0m22.451s user 0m4.390s 0m4.350s 0m4.360s sys 0m0.560s 0m0.580s 0m0.500s hot real 0m5.003s 0m4.991s 0m5.000s user 0m4.190s 0m4.290s 0m4.260s sys 0m0.360s 0m0.250s 0m0.270s
oowriter soffice2.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 prelinked cold real 0m18.445s 0m17.709s 0m20.787s user 0m2.950s 0m3.000s 0m2.940s sys 0m0.450s 0m0.450s 0m0.590s hot real 0m3.773s 0m3.757s 0m3.766s user 0m2.880s 0m2.810s 0m2.810s sys 0m0.270s 0m0.370s 0m0.280s
oowriter soffice2.bin openoffice.org-1.1.0-6.1 prelinked cold real 0m18.273s 0m17.501s 0m19.459s user 0m2.930s 0m2.940s 0m2.780s sys 0m0.400s 0m0.430s 0m0.670s hot real 0m3.356s 0m3.392s 0m3.740s user 0m2.830s 0m2.890s 0m2.860s sys 0m0.270s 0m0.240s 0m0.260s
Jakub