Hi Wilson! On 2/28/06, Wilson John D. Barbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I find some open source apps more responsive and better running in > Windows platform than in Linux. I find OpenOffice2 faster in winxp than in > Ubuntu. Firefox and thunderbird I also find them faster in windows than in > linux. Just my opinion.
OO2 is faster because it `preloads' many of its libraries at Windows' startup. In GNU/Linux, there's the `prelink' mechanism (in Debian/Ubuntu, there's a separate package, iirc Recommended by openoffice.org2) which can also do this nifty `quick start' trick, but its not on by default since it modifies the binaries involved. As for FF and TB I still experience some sluggishness, but not upon startup. Cheers, Zakame -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D
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