On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jack Coates wrote: > now now, let's all play nice before someone gets an eye put out. It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's just fun. =) > Besides, everyone knows that real men use links :-) Well, since I eat quiche, that's irrelevant for me. =) > Mozilla 8.1 is nice -- I use it on Win2K and Mandrake 7.2. I'm actually > getting excited that it might not suck when it hits 1.0. Aye, it'll be nice to have a fast and mostly stable browser for Linux. > Did I mention that Win2K sucks?? Work laptop is an IBM Stinkad T20 with > 800Mhz PIII and 256 MB RAM (!). Mandrake boots in 120 seconds. Windows Uh... Don't know about Mandrake - I use SuSE for the time being, although Progeny Debian is impressing my socks off - but I know that my SuSE 7.0 install boots in 37 seconds to command-prompt, and takes about 15 seconds to fully get X going. X varies based on system - used to take longer on my Celery 433 with 64 megs; it's amazing what an Athlon 1.1 and 256MB can do for you - but the boot times don't appreciably change. This is with Kernel 2.4.x(test or release) though, so YMMV. > boots in 6 minutes (both IT build and fresh install). Right-click > something in Windows -- five second pause to display a context menu. > The general responsiveness is Win95 on a fast 486 with lots of RAM. If That's beyond severely broken. I had better responses out of Win2K Pro on my Celeron - haven't put it on my Athlon; running WinME there - with EDO memory. And an old 5400RPM 2.1GB IDE drive. Wonder if it's something to do with the specific hardware... > For comparision my home desktop is a K6-2/400 with 128 MB. Subjectively > twice as fast -- granted I'm using a different application set, but Star I shall refrain from going into the many boons of AMD processors; especially since they don't really include the K6-2 series. =) > There's my non-productive message for the day... Hey, gotta have one every once in a while. -- George Metz Commercial Routing Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We know what deterrence was with 'mutually assured destruction' during the Cold War. But what is deterrence in information warfare?" -- Brigadier General Douglas Richardson, USAF, Commander - Space Warfare Center _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
