gentoo - wow!! - progress

[Ken Moffat]

Leon A. Goldstein wrote:

>Ken Moffat asked:
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>>As an aside, has anyone compared speeds of OpenOffice (or StarOffice) on 
>>Linux (whichever distro!) verses Windows (whichever variety!)???   I'm 
>>just curious.
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>OK, you asked for it. Here are start-up times (seconds) for SO 5.2 and a
>couple of other apps. The system is a Compaq Presario Athlon 900 mHz,
>256 MB.
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>              SO 5.2 (WP9)  NS 4.79  NS 6.22
>Windows ME:    13     9      4.6      10
>                     (WP8.1)
>eDesk 2.4      14     5      3.8      7.4 
>(KDE 1.1.2)
>Libranet 2.0.2 18     6      7.2      11
>(KDE 2.2.2)
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That was quick.
OK, not too impressive for staroffice, but netscape is OK.
Looks like kde2 is the kulprit, eh? Wonder about kde3 or gnome.
I'd love to see a comparison using Xfce, IceWM, etc.
And windows XP should have a shot, I guess.