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2 Oct
2004
2 Oct
'04
02:37
Regarding the origial posting where xp boots in 22 seconds and suse slower, I became curious. My machine is a laptop with a mobile pentium 1.4 Ghz, 256 MB ram, don't think the other specs are that relevant. I have SuSe 9.1 and WinXP dual boot with Grub. From the boot menu (with a stopwatch) here are my results: Win XP boot - 2 min 11 seconds (when I can first start to run a program). Has lots of programs loaded but nothing on the quick launch bar. Suse 9.1 - 2 min 4 seconds (when I can first click on an icon to start). Most software installed except development stuff. Neither OS is fully optimized, and Suse I just installed last week, so I still have to tune it. Not slower than XP! Gus.