On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 18:48, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > > > As I said, if you want to compare apples to apples, load OO ONCE on desktop > > 2 and switch to it--that is what Windows is doing with MSO, or the nearest > > achievable equivalent. > > Civileme, there are few to none occasions in which i can disagree with you > or even judge your knowledge... you are simply above many of us, most of the > time, but this is one of the subjects in which you sound a little ...wishful? > > In this machine of mine, i can load windows 98, and Office will take something > like 2 seconds to start. True, most of the libs are already on memory. > > But then, i can also run Office thru wine on Linux (does Linux preload > MS Office in memory?) and it takes about 5 to 10 seconds. (this includes > the time needed to launch the wineserver, wine.bin processes, and then > MS Office. > > OpenOffice.org 1.0 takes a full minute.
This is like saying that Linux is faster than Windows because Bluefish loads faster than DreamWeaver. Put OOo on windows and do that comparison. > > Try it yourself. As you very correctly said, thare are some things for which > Linux is faster, and some things for which Windows is faster. Now, MS Office > is a VERY fast set of applications. Even if it's not pre-loaded (wine proves > it). And OpenOffice.org is a VERY SLOW set of applications (regarding > startup anyway. Normal operation does not differ........ almost) > > > > > <snip> > > > > I amazed people at a local Computer Renaissance when loading a copy of > > Mandrake for a business customer. One of the CDs would not read on the > > target machine (media vs drive error on a brand-new drive) so I used a > > Mandrake Demonstrator there to burn a copy of the CD which would read. > > While burning, I was printing the user manual I had prepared and also > > showing someone how to connect to the internet using the machine and > > MCC.... And then I burned a copy of another CD (showing how backing up > > could be done). > > > > The store techs were floored. They had a hyped-up dual P4 running win2K > > server and when they were burning they could not do anything else, and they > > HAD to reset after burning or the next CD they burned would have only a > > directory and no retrievable data. > > > > Civileme > > I have tried this also. In this one you are quite right, Linux 0wnz CD-burning > and proper multitasking. :o) > > Damian > > --- > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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