Felix Miata wrote:
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.
That's pretty much my take and the way I run my boxes, except I run all the other distros under VirtualBox and they are definitely quicker, but that may be comparing eggs and oranges. The last time I ran Mandriva (may be 2 years ago or longer) on a standalone box, there was no noticeable difference. The general perception in reviews is that openSUSE is slower. I shall sort a disk out and install Fedora or Kubuntu to gauge how they stack up standalone against openSUSE. On my P-II/333 96M and 2M video laptop the issue was KDE, unusable under openSUSE and quite snappy under Kubuntu, pretty much the same under openSUSE if I used a lightweight window manager. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org