Re [Gllug] Interesting article on the MS monopoly

[Garry Heaton]

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net

>On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:12:48AM +0100, Garry wrote:
>> I find it embarrasing to note that most Open Source apps that run on XP,
>> notably OO and Mozilla, boot and run much quicker than on Linux.

> On Linux, these apps use a host of shared libraries.  The Windows
> versions will likely have much more statically linked in.  For OO on
>Linux, you can boost the loading speed using prelink.

> Bruce

This is precisely my point. If it can be prelinked, as you say, why on earth
isn't it the default with distros which are tyring to impress desktop users?

Garry

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