On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 15:02 -0500, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
*** Reply to message from David Robertson
on Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:42:17 +0300 One more candle and a trip around the Sun*** I don't run Windows at all now, but on any machine I've had both XP and Linux installed, Linux is slower to boot to a full runlevel 5.
I supose one could check to see what is being loaded, and is it something you actually use?
That was part of my point - I disable everything I don't use in Linux. Its not so easy to do that in XP, so a lot of unnecessary stuff gets loaded/started, but its still faster. I don't use KDE because it is just too slow: I prefer Gnome or Windowmaker - at least we have a choice of desktops. I'm certainly no lover of MS but I think it is important that we don't make invalid criticisms: there's enough of that coming the other way. David -- "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance" -Sam Brown