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On 2007-01-13, Mark Kent spake thusly:
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Kubuntu on Apple. The good and the bad.
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>>| OS X has a much faster boot up time, but after you have booted up,
>>| regular programs started up slow. Macs do have an advantage here
>>| in that when you open a program - the program leaves a trail that
>>| OS X commits to memory for that session - then when you reopen the
>>| same program, the program starts much faster.
>>|
>>| Kubuntu, on the other hand, takes about three minutes to boot. Once
>>| it boots, though, the programs are comparatively snappy. This was
>>| especially true with Open Office 2.0 which has a notoriously long
>>| startup on any platform. With OS X it takes about one minute before
>>| it becomes usable, with Kubuntu, it was about 30 seconds. Though,
>>| there is no speed gain on reopening of programs like on OS X.
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>> http://aprigliano.blogspot.com/2007/01/kubuntu-on-apple-good-and-bad.html
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> It's interesting enough, but I think that such as start-up times are
> given much to high an importance when you're looking at reliable
> platforms like OSX and Linux. I can see why this has happened, the need
> to reboot windows has never gone away, so the time to start up
> everything is of critical importance, but for linux and OSX? I think
> not.
>
More interesting to me is the notion that OSX boots up faster than kubuntu.
I have a powerbook G4 and an eMac. I use ubuntu on my other computer more
than the Macs and ubuntu is leagues above them in speed of boot and
speed of loading most applications once booted. In fact, installed ubuntu
boots so fast it's startling to friends I have given the disk to, and was
starteling to me the first time I ran the installed version. The live disk,
like most live disks, is painfully slow to boot.
On the other hand, there _are no live OSX or Windows disks_.
I have noticed that gnome loads fast in any distro. KDE takes considerably
longer to load. Not having used Kubuntu, I don't know - is this the difference
in boot time?
Oh, and I do concede that open office takes a long time to load. It's a
powerful office suite and IMO it's to be expected. It's worth the wait. for
me, this leads to the next logical question - how long does Microsoft office
take to load?
But I am getting a bit tangential here. The point: Ubuntu loads faster than
any OS I have ever used. Hands down. I really don't understand this particular
objection. It has the flavor of FUD. Red Bull energy drink caliber FUD.
Best regards to all, regardless of OS,
Mateus
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