On Thursday 11 November 2004 10:42, David Robertson wrote:
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:20 -0600, Eric Scott wrote:
What I would like to see is a comparison to a Windows XP system on the same box similarly configured from start to when all the tray thingies are fully loaded.
I think most of the comparisons that have been done show there isn't usually much in it. XP boots pretty quickly, despite enabling absolutely everything along the way. 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.
However, I don't mind waiting a few seconds longer for a more flexible and secure system!
But my old P-II/350 MHz box running SuSE 8.0 Pro was only 10 secs slower than the 1.8 GHz Pentium box @ work. To be fair, the latter had to connect to a large network, but I tested the boot time at night when no users were on the system. I didn't make any changes in the services I'm running - still Apache, MySQL. O.k., I have added the kernel-based nfs server, which is what Yast gives you. I suspect my P-II w/SUSE 8.0 w/192 MB RAM (if it were still running) would keep pace with this AMD 1.3 GHz box w/256 MB RAM. I can almost make a pot of coffee while this box boots. Don't ask about the mobo, as I have no idea what brand it is. I do wish the manufacturers would take a little pride in their work and label it. Maybe they don't want me to call them when/if it fries. :) I'm not a speed freak, so it doesn't necessarily bother me much anyway. Still, it would be nice to brag that this box can keep up with the 3 GHz box that we now have @ work w/WinXP. As for Windoze booting quickly, I've always thought it was slow. But, hey, if you make a processor fast enough, even WinXP runs at a decent pace. Naturally, MS' latest release of Office is another effort on their part to drive CPU speed advances. ;) Understand, I love SUSE. I just thought I would get more speed out of it. Guess I'll have to learn to compile a custom kernel. -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere!"