On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 16:55 -0500, elefino wrote:
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 21:23, Patrick Freeman wrote: [...]
At work, my main desktop machine runs Win XP Pro. From the time that I press the power switch, until the time that the hard disk stops churning, takes a minute or so, including the few seconds that it takes me to authenticate. The company and I have both added some extra stuff that lives in the tray, and that has added a few seconds.
When I boot SuSE 9.3 on that computer, or SuSE 10 on my home computer (the one that I'm writing from, at this moment), it takes many minutes for SuSE to load, then (after I login) it takes a further few minutes for KDE to load. The difference between starting after a clean shutdown, versus starting and re-opening apps (like multiple Konqi windows) that I might have left open at last shutdown is a very small portion of the total start time, so I discount that portion.
The correct places to bitch about things starting slow are: kernel.org - who write the kernel kde.org or gnome.org - whichever you use or use xfwm openoffice.org - the writers of OpenOffice Novell/SUSE only packages these items to make it easier for you to install them. They do -not- write the programs (although they contribute some code). If you want your hardware to work better write the manufacturer and tell them to write (better) drivers for their product for linux. Please do not state that device XYZ works on windows but not on linux, there again bitch to the manufacturer to write a driver just like they do for windows. MS does not write the drivers, the manufacturer does. You always have the choice to go back to MS windows and all of its virii, worms and bugs. I care not to. When you factor in all the the times you have to re-install windows it runs about even in start up times. And please there is no need to reply back to this. Happy New Year -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998