Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Andy Green]

Mike McCarty wrote:

> from its local disc. I just clicked on the "OpenOffice.org
> Writer Word processor" icon on the task bar at the bottom
> of my screen, and it was 58 seconds before it was ready
> to take a keystroke, on my 2.71 GHz Linux machine. On my
> 400MHz Win98 machine, Word loads in less than 5 secs.

What does

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz

say on your fast box?  If that isn't broken (one laptop here reacts to
cpuspeed by being permanently at the lowest frequency), what's your HDD
like on that box?  How many fonts installed?  58 seconds sounds all wrong.

-Andy
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