Re: Installfests (WAS: Re: [ossig] FOSS Meet)

[SianLun Lau <wahlau@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:14:21 +0800
Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my> wrote:

> > hah! i wonder are they comparing execution of software, or just
> > bootup time :)
> 
> <waitingtobebashed>

naw, i am not so good with bashing :) we can use a few Krombacher
though :P
 
> With all due respect; I do run some multi-boot (as much as I hate
> the OS on the first partition); and XP boots faster and works faster
> (as you may guess without tweaking; just out of the box).
> This is sorry to say; but this is the case IMHO; and I never noticed

then you compare out of the box, it is already an unfair comparison. i
think with standard installation you do have *more* stuffs in linux
than windows XP. it depends also on which windows manager you are
using, and what kind of things are set or defined for you. of course i
would not also expect to compare XP with window maker or xfce4..
because those are just too simple.

> otherwise.
> The greatest offenders are OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird *in 
> comparison to M$ Office, IE*.

yeah :) not forgetting Sunbird!

> Before the chaps from the other camp start to yahoo: Since long I
> have honest- and seriously come to appreciate that the Desktops on
> *nix and *BSD are far superior w.r.t. usability and features. This
> makes - to me - more than up for the slowliness.

i dunno, on my notebook i don't really notice such "noticable"
slowliness. and i don't have any super duper Centrino stuffs on mine,
but just an old PIII 650. hmm... time to upgrade?

SL


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