Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd <adamvaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Nelson wrote:
> Hello
>
> Since upgrading my system (1.8GHz P4 with 512MB RAM and Ultra 160 SCSI 
> drives), the startup time of some programs (most particularly, acrobat
> reader) have gotten REALLY long.
>
> For instance, it takes a minute and 4 seconds for the acroread window
> to appear on the display after typing "/usr/bin/acroread" at a shell
> prompt.
>
>   
Do you need to run acrobat? Why not use xpdf, which does a faster open 
and looks just as well?

Adam in NYC with SuSE 10.0