Hmmmmmmmm...it took mine 43 seconds to come up.
AMD K6-233
64MB SDRAM
2.2.16 kernel
Linux Mandrake 7.1
that's really not too bad.
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Mark
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Patti Wavinak wrote:
> I hate to disappoint you or maybe I am just lucky -- I have Star Office
> 5.2 in Linux with 2.2.16 kernel a PII 450 processor and 256M of memory. I
> just timed how long it took to bring it up -- less than 3 seconds after I
> clicked on the icon. I'll stick with Star Office but that's jmho. ;-)
>
> Patti
> Registered Linux User #184611
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> On 9/13/00, 2:18:01 PM, Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> regarding RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird & ka7-100]:
>
>
> > your friend was exaggerating. Star office still crawls on 256M. It
> crawls on
> > 384! Click on the icon, get up, get a beer, have a smoke, read the
> newspaper,
> > cook some dinner, Hey! the splash screen is up on the screen!
>
> > hahahahahaha
>
>
> > Abe
>
>
>
> > >===== Original Message From "Austin L. Denyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> =====
> > >> What in the world would one do with all that RAM? I can half
> > >understand
> > >> having that much processor, but on a machine that you're not using as
> > >a
> > >> server I can't figure what all that RAM would be good for other than
> > >just
> > >> sitting there and being ALOT of RAM. Poor little programs would get
> > >lost
> > >> in all that room! :(
> > >
> > >I was talking to someone a while ago who said that Star Office likes
> > >250Mb RAM to run properly - it CRAWLS on less.
> > >
> > >NutScrape takes a fair bit too. Add VWMare to the package, with a
> > >couple of clients, and a gig goes in no time #;-(
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Ozz.
>
> > Jesus saves,
> > Allah forgives,
> > Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
>
>
