On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:48, Chadley Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 11 November 2004 17:42, David Robertson wrote:
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:20 -0600, Eric Scott wrote:
What I would like to see is a comparison to a Windows XP system on the same box similarly configured from start to when all the tray thingies are fully loaded.
I think most of the comparisons that have been done show there isn't usually much in it. XP boots pretty quickly, despite enabling absolutely everything along the way. I don't run Windows at all now, but on any machine I've had both XP and Linux installed, Linux is slower to boot to a full runlevel 5.
However, I don't mind waiting a few seconds longer for a more flexible and secure system!
David
I think that alot of it has to do with what software components are including in the distro. I mean, on my ol' Mac I have a really old Mac OS dual-booted with Linux. The Mac OS can boot up MUCH faster than Linux, but Linux loads things like sendmail, samba, nfs, webmin, and all sorts of things that I only use every now and then, but that don't even exist on the Mac OS. Forgive the Mac illistration, but I think the same applies to Windows. Sure, it's got everything windowsy... workgroup/domain network connections, windows udate, windows messenger, addware, and all the other things that are next to impossible to keep windows from loading on boot. Linux, on the otherhand, is spending all its time loading SMTP servers, NFS, Webmin, and other things that are enabled by default, weather or not you use them. My point? I think Linux takes longer because it's loading more... because it has more available to load. If your Mandrake 8.2 box enables apache by default on a fresh install, for example, wouldn't it still load alot faster than a brand-new install of Windows 2000 Server, which enables IIS by default? Sorry, had to get a little defensive on my Linux-side there ;-). Cheers, SigmaChi -- Registered Linux user #366862 This message was sent from a Microsoft-Free 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernel 2.6.5), multi-booted with RedHat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18; can't get Fedora to work!) and Debian 3.0 (Kernel 2.2.20). "Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software!" "A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp" -snipped from the signature of Peter Nikolic