On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:21 -0400, malzfreund@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi there,
I am new to the list & Linux so I wanted to ask you a question before filing a bug report. Under RC1 (i586), it takes roughly 80 seconds to load Acrobat Reader on my Dell Latitude D600 (just the application, without opening any pdf). This is roughly four times as long as it took under SUSE Linux 10.0. My question is: is it appropriate to file a bug report about this, given that Acrobat is just an add-on product?
Thanks,
Joachim Goeschel
Try downloading the Linux acrobat directly from Adobe and see if it does the same thing. Also, note if it consistently takes 80 seconds, or if it's only after a reboot. A bug report probably won't do much good, since Adobe is a proprietary, binary only package. Basically that means SUSE can't really do anything about it even if there is something wrong. From the RPM description: --- However, there are security leaks and other bugs that cannot be fixed because the Adobe license forbids us to "modify the Software in any way." See http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrdistribute.html --- You may want to give kpdf a try, or contact Adobe. Thanks, Chad