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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.
> `----
>
> http://aprigliano.blogspot.com/2007/01/kubuntu-on-apple-good-and-bad.html
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.
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