Someone who reads COLA has asked me to post the following:
One thing the FUD artists on COLA would like to have all believe that
Windows XP is rock stable and Linux is always crashing. I got a kick out of
"Oliver Wong's" accusation that his Ubuntu system crashes constantly (and
therefore he would like others to conclude that Linux is a failure.)
Yesterday, I had several task crashes on Adobe Professional. I was printing
a large 362 page Adobe PDF into another PDF (essentially a save using the
Adobe print driver) as 2 pages on one 8-1/2" x 11" page, so when I sent it
to the laser printer, I would only have 91 sheets. (It is a training manual
that the training department sent me. Sometimes they send manuals in PDF
and let the user print them out instead of supplying in the classroom.)
I have 384 MB RAM on my corporate desktop. I had several spreadsheets open
in Excel, a Word document, PowerPoint and Outlook open.
Once I closed the other applications, it took about 20 minutes for the
document to complete the conversion.
Those who complain about the long load times (which are not really long) for
Open Office, obviously are either trolling or do not use Microsoft Office,
to include Excel. Excel takes about 20 seconds to come up and load a
spreadsheet.
Excel crashing is a regular occurrence. Yes, a recovery module pops up and
retrieves the broken document and restarts Excel, which is an improvement
over versions previous to Office XP.
However, there are limits to virtual memory in XP if one does not have a
full compliment of memory (like 1 GB). I find it best to run only several
applications at a time. If I am running a heavy one like
Adobe Professional 6.0, it is best I operate those without much other going
on. Otherwise, I run into task hangs until task at hand completes or task
crash.
When Erik speaks of how smooth his 500 MHz PC system with 256 MB memory runs
in Vista with only 69% memory utilisation only humours me. The real test of
an operating system is when applications are loaded and operated as in a
typical environment (or particular environment for special users). Running
an operating system without applications or server service is akin to
keeping a car transmissioned in park and idling the engine. Perhaps he
should sell used cars.
COLA Myth Buster Advocate,
<anon>
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