gentoo - wow!! - progress

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Ken Moffat 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.

Of course SO5.2 is really a dinosaur.  A more accurate test would be SO6
or OO1.0.  And i'd bet good money that Mozilla-1.0 starts up faster than
NS-6/7.x.

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