gentoo - wow!! - progress

[Collins]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:17:40 -0700 Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com>
wrote:
> Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
> 
> >Ken Moffat asked:
> >  
> >
> >>As an aside, has anyone compared speeds of OpenOffice (or
> >StarOffice) on >Linux (whichever distro!) verses Windows (whichever
> >variety!)???   I'm >just curious.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >              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)
> >  
> >
> 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.

Don't have any others, but oo takes 18 seconds to start from xfce
(PII/800 with 256Meg).

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Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla