____/ Ewok on Wednesday 02 January 2008 11:17 : \____
> On Dec 29 2007, 2:39 am, "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It takes 12 seconds to cold launch on my P4, 3.0ghz system w/ 2gb of RAM and
>> a fast SATA drive. It's pure OSS crapooolllaaaa.
>>
>
> Your computer P4, 3.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM and fast SATA
> My computer AMD Duron, 1,3 GHz, 1 GB RAM and IDE
>
> We could guestimate that your computer is roughly 3 times as fast as
> my is. You say that it takes 12 seconds to cold launch open office on
> your computer. It took 3 seconds on my computer. I just clocked it.
> That is 4 times faster than on your computer. Since I use linux and
> you use windows, I guess that, that would explain the difference. That
> would make linux 12 times faster than windows.
OOo can be launched (from a 'cold' state) within just a few seconds on this old
PC that I use. It's very fast.
...Too bad for those who still use Windows because _even_ if they choose Free
open source, they are treated like second-class citizens.
> I do realize that this is in no way a scientific approach to compare
> the two operating systems, and that there are better benchmarks, than
> to compare loading time of open office on a cold launch.
>
> My point is simply this, that windows is very competently constructed
> to run softwares created by Microsoft faster than software created by
> other companys. There is a mayor loading time difference in firefox on
> linux and on windows. There is also a mayor difference in the amount
> of resources that firefox hog on linux and on windows. I could easily
> have firefox up, with 20 tabs on linux, but if I do that on windows,
> the memory usage will slowly rise and suddenly, my computer will be
> painfully slow and need a restart.
>
> One of the reasons for this, is that MS doesn't release the specs for
> windows to other software vendors, giving it an unfair edge.
"We should dedicate a cross-group team to come up with ways to leverage Windows
technically more."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
"I am convinced we have to use Windows – this is the one thing they don’t have.
We have to be competitive with features, but we need something more — Windows
integration."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
> One question to you, what kind of stuffs do you run on that computer,
> to make it so slow? I cold start open office faster than you do, even
> on a liveCD with Beryl running.
You're responding to Microsoft's handbook of FUD. Microsoft has all sorts of
documents (and sites) that guide those who are looking for classic (and
invalid) ways to dismiss Linux.
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