Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[David Robertson <derobertson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 15:02 -0500, jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> *** Reply to message from David Robertson <derobertson@xxxxxxxxxx> on
> Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:42:17 +0300   One more candle and a trip around the
> Sun***
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I supose one could check to see what is being loaded, and is it
> something you actually use?

That was part of my point - I disable everything I don't use in Linux.
Its not so easy to do that in XP, so a lot of unnecessary stuff gets
loaded/started, but its still faster. I don't use KDE because it is just
too slow: I prefer Gnome or Windowmaker - at least we have a choice of
desktops.
I'm certainly no lover of MS but I think it is important that we don't
make invalid criticisms: there's enough of that coming the other way.

David
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