Since Niel's mail server won't accept mail from me (I have a comcast 
dhcp assigned address at this moment and prefer not to use their smtp 
server) I'm posting a response here:

I have been using the openoffice 2.0 for some time now on either of two 
64 bit AMD systems.  This is the one available at openoffice.org (since 
2.0 offers more formats and better features).  This is, I believe, a 32 
bit version but it works fine with both the uniprocessor and smp 64 bit 
kernels runnning under SL4.2.  I have never seen either a crash of the 
program nor a kernel lockup.

Cheers,
Bob Blair

Niels Walet wrote:

> I have REAL problems with openoffice on my (dual) amd64 box (SL 4.2).
> It seems that openoffice can be made to generate kernel oopses without an
> y
> problem at all :-( , something that I think is rather surprising. Have 
> had
>
> such issues for a while, also on SL 3.x, and on a variery of stock SMP ke
> rnels.
> Does anyone know whether there is any protection from such problems?
> I can live with the openoffice crashes (which also occur!), but the kerne
> l
> oopses are just too much.
> Niels
>  
>