> > As I said, if you want to compare apples to apples, load OO ONCE on desktop > 2 and switch to it--that is what Windows is doing with MSO, or the nearest > achievable equivalent.
Civileme, there are few to none occasions in which i can disagree with you or even judge your knowledge... you are simply above many of us, most of the time, but this is one of the subjects in which you sound a little ...wishful? In this machine of mine, i can load windows 98, and Office will take something like 2 seconds to start. True, most of the libs are already on memory. But then, i can also run Office thru wine on Linux (does Linux preload MS Office in memory?) and it takes about 5 to 10 seconds. (this includes the time needed to launch the wineserver, wine.bin processes, and then MS Office. OpenOffice.org 1.0 takes a full minute. Try it yourself. As you very correctly said, thare are some things for which Linux is faster, and some things for which Windows is faster. Now, MS Office is a VERY fast set of applications. Even if it's not pre-loaded (wine proves it). And OpenOffice.org is a VERY SLOW set of applications (regarding startup anyway. Normal operation does not differ........ almost) <snip> > I amazed people at a local Computer Renaissance when loading a copy of > Mandrake for a business customer. One of the CDs would not read on the > target machine (media vs drive error on a brand-new drive) so I used a > Mandrake Demonstrator there to burn a copy of the CD which would read. > While burning, I was printing the user manual I had prepared and also > showing someone how to connect to the internet using the machine and > MCC.... And then I burned a copy of another CD (showing how backing up > could be done). > > The store techs were floored. They had a hyped-up dual P4 running win2K > server and when they were burning they could not do anything else, and they > HAD to reset after burning or the next CD they burned would have only a > directory and no retrievable data. > > Civileme I have tried this also. In this one you are quite right, Linux 0wnz CD-burning and proper multitasking. :o) Damian ---
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