Thom Nowakowski
Here are some numbers from my 550 MHz PIII with a 5400 rpm IDE disk:
- boot to runlevel 5 with kdm: 1 min 36 s - start of a KDE session: 1 min 5 s (it includes 15 s for applications like xmms, xosview, ...) - Install or remove software module of YaST2: 40 s
Does SUSE or KDE have a plan on getting this time down?
As far as I know, the KDE team tries to optimize for speed too. But don't expect new versions of KDE to be fast on a 550 MHz PIII machine, the CPU is too obsolete now. On modern machines with e.g. 2.4 GHz P4, the KDE performance is quite OK.
It'll be very difficult for them to compete for OS supremecy if it takes winxp 20secs (no kidding, I've seen it happen!!) and suse/kde more than 4 mins just to boot up!!
It's not more than 4 minutes - it's 2 minutes and 40 seconds on an obsolete machine. Sure, it would be nice if didn't take more than 20 seconds but most income comes from the server market now and these machines reboot just several times per year. -- A.M.