Performance testing (pass 1)

[Stephan Schutter]

I diabled this feature... for fairness...

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, ByteEnable wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 09:10, Stephan Schutter wrote:
> > I compared Windows XP and RHL 9 on a Dell Laptop (C610) 
> > 
> > CPU:	1000MHZ
> > RAM:	256MB
> > 
> > Software: 
> > 
> > OS:	WinXP			RHL 9
> > 	Open office		OpenOffice
> > 	MS Office 2k		MS Office 2k
> > 	
> > 
> > Software startup times:
> > 		WinXP		RHL 9
> > 		  (s)		 (s)
> > OS bootup	37		70	
> > Login		8		21
> > Def Browser	1		7
> > Word 2k		4		6
> > Open Office	10		21
> > Def TextEdit	1		3
> > File Browser	1.5		1.5
> > 
> > Timings are average of 5 launches. Word on linux, suprisingly, is snappier 
> > than OpenOffice... Open Office is faster on Windows than linux... 
> > 
> > Soooo.... do I need to ask?
> > 
> > 1. If Open Source writes better software; then why is it fatter and 
> > slower?
> > 
> > 2. Is any one at RHL working on desktop performance?
> > 
> > These are some of the sugestione that I may need to answe to when I 
> > present this and further data to my managers. Gys... what should I say?
> > 
> > One of the original sugestions of why to use Linux is that it could buy 
> > you longer life on the old hardware... this does not seem to be the case. 
> > 
> 
> I believe that Microsoft preloads some of the office code during
> login/startup.  This same same complaint, "it takes so long to load
> word", was leveled at MS years ago.
> 
> Robert Thomas
> 
> 
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