On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Ken Moffat wrote: > 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.
Of course SO5.2 is really a dinosaur. A more accurate test would be SO6 or OO1.0. And i'd bet good money that Mozilla-1.0 starts up faster than NS-6/7.x. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
