James Gray wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:52 pm, Rajnish wrote:
All,
Slight tangent to the current thread.
James Gray wrote:
Linux and most other "real" operating systems will take advantage of
"unused" RAM and allocate it for disk buffers and disk cache. This is
a good thing! The kernel will free up buffers and/or cache as it deems
appropriate if an application needs the space. To the end user (or
system admin) the whole process is completely transparent and very
fast.
I've got a pretty old and still reasonable powerful 450Mhz PC with
196MB RAM. It runs all Ubuntu, FC3 and Win2K quite happily.
Firefox startup on Win2K is "noticeably quicker" than either
of my Linux distros. Is there a way to improve this startup ?
Firefox/Mozilla startup on Linux/Unix/etc is a dog's breakfast to put it
lightly. The "firefox" executeable is actually a big ugly shell script
that does all sorts of jiggery-pokery to set everything just right so the
browser is happy with the world once up and running. This (AFAIK) is due
to the inherent inconsistencies between all the various *nix flavours
Mozilla and Firefox run on. So rather than inventing a different set of
options for every *nix, they've made this big ugly script that works
everywhere, on all *nix'es.
Rather than distributing a broken, unpackaged archive, and a shitty
shell script, getfirefox.com should host the existing packages for the
major distros which already exist.
Mike
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