Re: Linux wannabe

["Paul D. Smith" <pausmith@nortelnetworks.com>]

%% Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au> writes:

  >> I think that Linux boots up faster than Windows, so it's maybe
  >> an advantage.

  md> 2.4 boots quite a bit quicker than 2.2 did, but I have a feeling that
  md> Windows is quicker still. Of course, the golden rule of optimisation is
  md> that you optimise the most common task...

This must depend on your system setup.

There is absolutely no question that Linux (2.2.18) boots _much_ faster
than Windows98 on my system (homegrown PII 450, 128M RAM); I timed it
once and Linux was over twice as fast as Windows.

Note by "boot" for Windows I mean the time it takes to get to a stable
screen with all the silly little applets running in the tray, etc. (I
don't have any login required on my Windows partition).  For Linux I
counted to the time it takes to get the XDM (really GDM) login screen
up.  Since I use vanilla FVWM 2.x as my WM and no desktop apps beyond
FvwmButtons it takes only 2-3 seconds or so to login to Linux anyway.

YM, of course, MV.

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