On 30/09/04 02:24 PM, Bahram Alinezhad
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Well this is utterly useless as a benchmark. What services are you running on the Linux boxes, the default ones start a number that only make sense on a server, and in some cases not at all. And why have you chosen the two heaviest and feature rich desktops, a more sensible benchmark would have been a windowmanager such as ICE which is closer to windows explorer functionality. As for YaST's opening speed, that is a fair point, but it is calling up a huge number of scripts to handle the system changes and it isnt a part of any desktop or windowmanager so it isnt reserving memory for itself when the desktop starts. If its that much grief use the curses based yast. For finding a file, are you querying one of the databases such as whereis for a location, or using find and searching from / ? For opening a command prompt, why not just press ctrl+alt+function1-6 for one of the VT's, or if you must open one under X, why not one that is similar to Command Prompt such as Xterm. As for Xp and 98, are they fully updated with antivirus and a firewall, not to mention all the other fun system tray lint windows picks up or are they fresh installs? Heres something you may not understand, Linux doesnt have native graphic functionality, instead thats provided by X and then windowmanagers and desktops are built ontop of that, this provides a vast amount of flexibility, including the ability to use X over a network, but TANSTAAFL, so certain things take longer. I'd imagine everyone here is happy to wait a few extra seconds for X to start. As for your accusation of negligence on the part of the programmers, I dont see any, only the limitations of the engineering and design; and the lack of certain JPEG exploits. And for your claim that people will say get a faster cpu, but it should be the programmers that optimise their programs for your system in their time. I say: A) Recompile the src rpms for you system or B) pay or ask someone to do A for you or C) Use a lightweight windowmanager/desktop such as XFCE4 or D) Accept that any system will have its negatives in addition to its positives or E) Use only what your happy with, which seems to be windows. Have Fun, Ben