Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:52 +0000, Tony Dietrich wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 Feb 2006 21:25, Mike McCarty wrote:
> <snip>
> > Not my experience. I have a well-loaded Win95 and a
> > well-loaded Win98 machine, both of which load up
> > Word more than 10x as fast as Open Office loads
> > on my Linux machine. The 300 MHz Win95 machine even pulls it
> > across a LAN faster than my 2.71 GHz Linux box can load OO
> > 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.
> >
> > YMMV
> >
> > Mike
> 
> OO2 - 7 secs to a useable document.
> And thats with a terminal window with 4 subwindows, including two ssh terminal 
> windows monitoring network installs, gFTP, Quanta, KDevelop, GIMP, Xpdf, 
> firefox and Kontact running open windows, named, mysqld, httpd postfix and 
> dovecot running in addition to the basic background services that are 
> required, such as cups.
> 
> Its a 2.4gHz Athlon box.
> 
> Something wrong with your 58 second machine there Mike :-(
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take his commentary with a grain of salt and recognize that he is using
FC-2 which I am sure few will argue was better abandoned for FC-3

Craig