[Wolves] I'm back..trying again.

[Adam Sweet]

--- sean_spencer at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I've just installed Fedora Core 4 on a Fujitsu
> Siemens PC. It has a
> Celeron 1.8 GHz processor, and 256MB RAM.
> 
> I'm using Gnome, and find it shockingly slow. Has
> anyone else tried FC4 at
> all ?
> 
> Here's an example. I launch OpenOffice Writer - I
> takes about 20 seconds
> before I can use it (either starting a new document,
> or by clicking on an
> already created Word document.)
> 
> I'm not expecting this thing to fly...but I'm SURE
> it should respond a LOT
> quicker than that..(i.e. when compared to when this
> box had WinXP on it with MS Office).

Hi Sean.

First of all OO.o is a dog. It's a slow moving beast
and needs a lot of RAM. I think OO.o 2 is working on
making it open more quickly. After my main PC died I'm
on an AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz with 256MB RAM running
Ubuntu and OO.o Writer took about 24 seconds to get to
an empty document waiting for input. Thats me counting
in my head so not very scientific.

Secondly, people are finding that Linux isn't as fast
compared to Windows and primarily this is due to the
fact that each layer of the operating system (kernel,
shell, graphical environment, window manager, desktop
environment, applications) is a separate project in
it's own right, whereas Windows is made by one company
who have done 15 years work optimising the interfaces
between each layer. On the good side it's fast, on the
bad side, half of it is in the operating system itself
(IE and Windows Media Player) which gives you the
famed insecurity and instability. If one bit goes down
it takes the operating system with it and you get a
bad security model.

As I sad at the top, OO.o is a beast of an application
so don't take it as indicative of the Linux world as a
whole. Sadly it is just plain slow to start.

Incidentally, are you the same Sean Spencer that met
me outside the train station 5 years ago to give me a
copy of Mandrake 7.1?

Take care mate,

Adam

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