On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:25 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 14:05, Mike McCarty wrote: > 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 ---- #1 I believe that Microsoft does some pre-loading of their Office shared libraries. #2 I believe that you could speed the time on Linux by doing some pre-linking or whatever it's called (brain dead moment - but I recall this being a large topic of discussion in FC-2) #3 I don't have any numbers to back my 'runs like a dog' statement and I'm not gonna get sucked into doing it either. In fact, the only reason that I got sucked into this thread (and you said you weren't gonna get sucked into this thread too), was because of someone's post comparing Win98 to FC-4 I can tell you this...I have 2 identical Shuttle SN41G2 boxes stacked upon each other (in fact, I stuck extra RAM in my WinXP box)...both using identical Athlon processors, 1 running WinXP/SP2 and 1 running FC-4 I don't run Microsoft Office on the WinXP...I run openoffice.org 2.x on both systems...Linux loads faster...note, I'm not gonna stop watch them. #4 My comment about WinXP running like a dog was predicated on Windows 98 era systems...i.e. =< 128Mb RAM, =< 600Mhz Pentium III and evidently you chose to ignore the predicate of my statement. Some people are actually loading and running Fedora on this class of machine and wonder why the performance is lousy. Heck...I recently installed FC-4 on my Sony VAIO PictureBook C1X (64Mb RAM, 266 MHz Pentium II, 4 Gb HD), don't ask why, I would like to think it was lack of lucidity and boredom from my motorcycle accident. Talk about a dog...it hunts though...I installed NXclient on it and it's a hot performer (once it finally boots...gets connected to network...totally thrashes desktop environment into vm pages and can get NXclient application loaded...all of which takes the proverbial patience of Job). ;-) The faster load times of various Microsoft applications on the Microsoft platform are merely window dressing though...that's an incredibly narrow yardstick to measure system performance. Craig
