On Friday 15 April 2005 20:01, Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
On Friday 15 April 2005 08:23, Colin Carter wrote:
Now I ask you, why does a modern O.S. take so long to start up?
All the services and features that need to be set up - all the stuff people expect from a modern OS.
If you want something that boots fast, there is always old MS-DOS. You might miss a couple of features you have come to like, though. ;-)
Dozens of different kinds of hardware are probed - which might or might not be available snip -- Stefan Hundhammer
Penguin by conviction. YaST2 Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH Nuernberg, Germany
True Stefan. I don't mean to Hammer SuSE; not at all. My respect for SuSE is the best. :-) I mean the Adobe/Word/ and the like. Code that takes hundreds of MB on the disk. In general the Linux software is smaller than the M$ software. I mean things like the flexibility of Word which can 'undo' so much work. Very useful - except that the stuff you want to undo us generally deep under stuff which you don't want to undo. I was sent a Word document which was a note of about ten lines; but the file was about half a MB. So, out of curiosity I openned it with a binary editor and discovered thousands of zeros, and all the details of a confidential contract which Word had obviously 'remembered' from a previous document! Exercise: in Word, type This is a sentence." Check the size of the saved file. Re-open the file and delete a word of the sentence, then undo, redo, undo, about ten times. Check the size of the file again. How can a programmer program so badly? And what do you think about my comments on 'upgrade'? So time consuming... I wasted today, and only went backwards. Now I will have to start my old XP laptop to read the rpm documentation. Cheers, Colin