On 22/06/06, jdow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Free as in speech or free as in sex? I can't seem to find a *nix > version. I thought that you had implied that they had released is a > *nix version with the intent of luring developers. I may have > misinterpretted your meaning. That concept is laughable. But maybe it'd work in WINE. That would be interesting to know.
What's laughable? IE runs better in wine on my linbox that it ever did natively on XP. That's not a joke. I don't have any hard numbers because I did not expect such a situation and therefore did not time IE on XP before converting the machine to Linux. But page load-and-display time is _much_ faster, and the menus seem more responsive as well. The only problem we have is Hebrew text input. We cannot type in Hebrew in any application under wine. I also think that Word is slightly more responsive in wne than it was on XP, but Excel and Powerpoint were better performing on XP. Again, I don't have any numbers, but both myself and the wife have noticed and commented on it. I suppose it is because of overall reduced system load on a basic KDE installation vs. Microsoft's default desktop environment. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com
