Please do not crosspost On 01/10/04 10:14 AM, Bahram Alinezhad <alineziad@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thank you for your notice, I want to add some comments:
1- My Linux setup and boot are on default settings (In fact, I am not so foolish to add unused services to the boot progress!)
So in other words your linux installation is running services it doesnt need if its acting as a desktop. I'd also imagine its still running hardware scan at boot.
2- In Windows OSs, I've installed a few programs and updates, but I accept that its boot time becomes slow and slower when you install more programs, though, the worsts are those who add startup items.
So in other words it isnt fully patched, firewalled and has antivirus running. Let alone have useful programs installed such as an office suite, a decent webbrowser and so on.
3- In both Linuces, I've installed nVIDIA binary driver (61.06) that works well, better than Windows drivers; But this driver only affects 3d games, no considerable difference in other programs.
It does however contaminiate the kernel, and the module is loaded anyway at boot.
4- When I speak about the applications, I mean the time for invoke them, not the time for doing special tasks inside.
Hitting the konsole icon on kooldock takes it about 2 seconds to lauch on my laptop. At the time it was running at 800Mhz and had 84 tasks running when I ran top on it.
5- I became tired in trying install Gnome 2.6 on both SuSE 9.1 and RedHat 9.0; Generally, installed RPM packages prevent the detection of newer versions installed from source code; In addition, removing the old rpm ruins the system... Gnome 2.8?! I see only 2.6 in the site!
Suse 9.1 ships with Gnome 2.4, as does RH9. Suse does not provide 2.6 rpms, but they do host ones built by a 3rd party but do not support or recommend them. The 2.8 rpms have just been built by James Ogley on his rather spiffy ew laptop according to his blog and are available via apt.
6- My intention is not hiding the great advantages of linux systems, such as: no need for restart, being open-source and many more; I wish its desktop would be faster.
My desktop (usually xfce4, but today kde) is plenty fast for me. If its not for you, then use something else.
7- The file system used here is ext3.
What filesystem are you using fro Xp? 98 will be fat32 - a non journaled fs, which will be faster but at the cost of data integrity.
8- How much features do you think SuSE have that is worth putting your hand under your chin for several seconds after any click?
I dont have to, even on my old 500Mhz box.
9- Is Mandrake Linux better in performance?
Try a stage 2 gentoo install, it'll optimise for your system, and given your badwidth and cpu keep you busy untill at least march. Regards, Ben