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Open Source: Where's the money? | by Didactylos | 2003-08-23 07:33:37 |
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I can't understand why more companies, | by pecosdave | 2003-08-23 09:08:31 |
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OpenOffice... | by LionsPhil | 2003-08-23 09:13:51 |
| 100's of reasons |
by pecosdave |
2003-08-23 09:24:05 |
many of them could be resolved by dumping more developers and or money into the opensource projects and saying "I want it to go faster".
It only took 35 seconds to open OpenOffice.org on my Celeron 450 notebook running KDE with 256MB of RAM and Frozen Bubble running on the other desktop. Not bad.
On my PIII 933 it took about 5 seconds to open MS-Office Word just now, also 256MB of RAM.
The difference? Parts of Office are still running right now rather I want them to or not in the background of Windows even though I've shut office down.
I don't see Linux as loading that much slower. Win2K goes through multiple loading screens before I have a login prompt. If I leave KDM to come up automatically (which requires X to load) it takes about the same amount of time, as long as I'm not loading every freaking kernal option I don't need on boot up. I just trim down my OS, or not fatten it up, whichever, I do that with both Linux and Windows.
Mozilla takes a heck of a lot longer to load on my PIII 933 desktop with Win2K than it does on my Celeron 450 Notebook running SuSE 8.1 BTW. I don't bother with Opera. I've used it before (four years ago and toyed with it occasionally since) and never really liked it (it had it's appeal, just not enough), sorry I can't back you up on that one. |
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"Only" 35 seconds? | by LionsPhil | 2003-08-23 09:38:38 |
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