Leon A. Goldstein wrote: >Ken Moffat asked: > > >>As an aside, has anyone compared speeds of OpenOffice (or StarOffice) on >>Linux (whichever distro!) verses Windows (whichever variety!)??? I'm >>just curious. >> >> >> > >OK, you asked for it. Here are start-up times (seconds) for SO 5.2 and a >couple of other apps. The system is a Compaq Presario Athlon 900 mHz, >256 MB. > > SO 5.2 (WP9) NS 4.79 NS 6.22 >Windows ME: 13 9 4.6 10 > (WP8.1) >eDesk 2.4 14 5 3.8 7.4 >(KDE 1.1.2) >Libranet 2.0.2 18 6 7.2 11 >(KDE 2.2.2) > > That was quick. OK, not too impressive for staroffice, but netscape is OK. Looks like kde2 is the kulprit, eh? Wonder about kde3 or gnome. I'd love to see a comparison using Xfce, IceWM, etc. And windows XP should have a shot, I guess.
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