On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:20:10AM +0100, J?r?me Warnier wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I tried Freesbie 1.1 lately and have been astounded by the startup speed
> of OOo on it. I used the LiveCD way of booting, with XFCE on my laptop,
> where the system installed is a Debian GNU/Linux Sarge, and I have been
> really impressed by the timing difference between both.
> 
> Do any of you have a good idea on the cause? I would like to bring it to
> Debian if I can. Even using prelink and disabling Java is not enough to
> make it half as fast.

Well, ours is a plain package. IIRC I compiled the version included in
FreeSBIE on my machine, only disabling Java. It's also dinamically
linked, afaik.

> After thinking a bit, I wondered if it could have something to do with
> it being a LiveCD. Is the filesystem completely in RAM (that would
> explain why it starts so quickly)? My laptop has 512MB of it.

Nope, in that version we have only unionfs enabled on ram
filesystem. All files are read from the compressed filesystem.

> Thanks for your help, and BTW, Freesbie is really neat. Keep up the good
> work!

Thank you, I hope you will help us testing our upcoming beta of the
next version :)

Bye,
Dario

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