* Rodolfo Lima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030226 08:24]: > But the installation really need to last 4 hours? In text mode? It certainly > doesn't do a mere copy from cd, maybe compile some things, I think.
OK, try installing Win XP on a blank disk. Now install Office XP. Now imagine you have several CD's of commercial, shareware, and freeware to install, one-by-one. Most Windows users have never installed Windows. They may have the few little applications, Solitaire, Notepad, etc., that come with Windows, and maybe they go through the installation of MS Office. Then maybe they install two or three commercial applications, including things like Quicken or QuickBooks. Just those few things are going to take the better part of an hour, on a fairly fast machine ... much longer on a slower machine. Most people who install Mandrake 9 are installing HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of programs ... an entire computing system, not just an operating system. Not zero or one, but maybe two or three office suites, several email clients, lots of CHOICES, all for a very low price. On a fast machine ALL that can be done in less than an hour. Let me see anyone try it on Win XP. I bet it would take longer, and cost several thousand dollars in license fees ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML
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