On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 13:09, Mike McCarty wrote: > My original point stands. Windows is not a cycle hog. It has much more overhead when switching among several processes. > Also, my > second point stands. As far as "until you try to do something", > Word starts much faster on my machine than does Open Office. Windows pre-loads much of the MS office library code. Compare Open Office/windows, Open Office/Linux. Linux will still lose because X has more overhead but you'll be closer to reality and in return for the X overhead you get the ability to run any X app remotely. > So do many other apps, like my web browsers. I think this > qualifies as "creating a new process". No, it has next to nothing to do with process creation. 'cat' would be closer. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
