Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Mike McCarty]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:43, Andy Green wrote:
> 
>>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
> 
> 
> Yeah, 9 slim seconds here on an XP2800 Athlon running at 2 GHZ.
> And I thought that was slow...

After unloading everything from memory, it took 24 seconds to load
OO. But exiting and reloading took 8 secs (roughly, just using the
seconds display on the screen for timing). Sooooo....

Disc accesses seem slow for some reason.

Mike
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