Re: Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

Gene Heskett wrote:

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:43, Andy Green wrote:

Mike McCarty wrote:

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.

What does

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz

say on your fast box?  If that isn't broken (one laptop here reacts to
cpuspeed by being permanently at the lowest frequency), what's your
HDD like on that box?  How many fonts installed?  58 seconds sounds
all wrong.

-Andy

Yeah, 9 slim seconds here on an XP2800 Athlon running at 2 GHZ.
And I thought that was slow...

After unloading everything from memory, it took 24 seconds to load
OO. But exiting and reloading took 8 secs (roughly, just using the
seconds display on the screen for timing). Sooooo....

Disc accesses seem slow for some reason.

Mike
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