Staroffice 5.2 is much faster (Score 1)

I was just introduced to 5.1 about 2 weeks ago, got it, and was impressed. I was considering buying MS Office 2000 because I really needed an office suite. After trying out Staroffice 5.1, I decided I'm going to stick with it. This is on a Win98SE box btw. Downloaded 5.2 as soon as I saw it was released on here, and on my system (Athlon 650, 256mb ram), it loads itself and the applications within itself MUCH faster than 5.1. I am very impressed. I'm a linux newbie. I installed Corel Linux on my older PC (300mhz, 64mb ram), and tried to install staroffice 5.2 from X and I can't figure out how. Please realize that I've only used linux for a total of maybe 20 minutes. It's a bin file, and I can't figure out how to extract it or whatever.. and Corel Linux boots straight into X.