Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2009/05/27 13:44 (GMT+0200) Martin Schlander composed:

> But every app in both KDE and GNOME (cold) starting very noticably faster, in 
> seemingly just about any other distro on the same hardware, is something that 
> should be taken seriously.

> *The* most common complaint about openSUSE from non-fanboys and distro-
> tourists is that "openSUSE is slow". While people usually don't specify what 
> exactly is slow when and where, there seems to be some truth to it when it 
> comes to application (cold) startup.

> People usually assume it's caused by the starting of a few additional 
> services 
> compared to other distros, but I don't buy that a few extra services can make 
> such a big difference on a modern "Vista capable" computer. I think something 
> is wrong on a lower level - whether it is linking, file system, kernel, 
> compile options or something else I have no clue - but I'm quite sure 
> something is wrong somewhere.

> Like I said before, the feeling of responsiveness with regards to application 
> startup in Mandriva 2009.0 compared to openSUSE (9.2 -> 11.1), was simply 
> shocking.

I've run *SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva & Kubuntu (plus doz; KDE only) for years,
but only *SUSE & OS/2 run 24/7 (11.0 on my file & web server, OS/2 for web
use & general chores). The rest are basically for testing alphas, betas, RCs,
and making comparisons among the various distros. The two 24/7 machines are
always the newest hardware, meaning all the others are somewhere between
modestly and massively slower hardware.

Startup time is just not something I pay much attention to. It nearly always
seems slower on Linux than doz, so I'm used to "slow" startup. The only
"speed" issue I have/had with openSUSE that I can recall is
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447142

All that said, SuSEfirewall* & *beagle* here are always either not installed,
or disabled in all runlevels.
-- 
"A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man
keeps himself under control."   Proverbs 29:11 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/
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