On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:52 +0000, Tony Dietrich wrote: > On Tuesday 14 Feb 2006 21:25, Mike McCarty wrote: > <snip> > > Not my experience. I have a well-loaded Win95 and a > > well-loaded Win98 machine, both of which load up > > Word more than 10x as fast as Open Office loads > > on my Linux machine. The 300 MHz Win95 machine even pulls it > > across a LAN faster than my 2.71 GHz Linux box can load OO > > from its local disc. I just clicked on the "OpenOffice.org > > Writer Word processor" icon on the task bar at the bottom > > of my screen, and it was 58 seconds before it was ready > > to take a keystroke, on my 2.71 GHz Linux machine. On my > > 400MHz Win98 machine, Word loads in less than 5 secs. > > > > YMMV > > > > Mike > > OO2 - 7 secs to a useable document. > And thats with a terminal window with 4 subwindows, including two ssh terminal > windows monitoring network installs, gFTP, Quanta, KDevelop, GIMP, Xpdf, > firefox and Kontact running open windows, named, mysqld, httpd postfix and > dovecot running in addition to the basic background services that are > required, such as cups. > > Its a 2.4gHz Athlon box. > > Something wrong with your 58 second machine there Mike :-( ---- take his commentary with a grain of salt and recognize that he is using FC-2 which I am sure few will argue was better abandoned for FC-3 Craig
