Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Jorge Fábregas <fabregasj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 11 September 2005 1:12 am, Carl Hartung wrote:
> And on the Linux side, I can be on the phone (Skype) while listening to the
> radio (shoutcast/xmms) while running my mail client/calendar/contacts
> manager (Kontact) and surfing in Konqueror *and* Firefox and have a couple
> of shells open and also a pdf document and be editing a web page (jEdit)
> while also editing a photo for that web page (GIMP)... and I can even move
> 700MB CD images (iso's) from drive to drive... and my music doesn't skip a
> beat... not once...  not ever. Whereas, when I'm listening to the same
> station using Winamp on XP, if I just open up a single large document in
> Acrobat reader while I'm surfing the Internet and editing a web page, the
> music *always* skips and stutters. Always. That tells me that Linux knows
> how to use my hardware much more efficiently; that the load balancing and
> shifting across apps is truly graceful; light years ahead.

Thank you Carl!  Very well put!