On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 3:29 pm, in message <430098A6.9090505@ini.phys.ethz.ch>, stephan.rickauer@ini.phys.ethz.ch wrote: Shriramana Sharma schrieb: Marcus Meissner wrote:
Specify "lack of speed". Where?
Yeah, where? I'm running SuSE 9.3 Pro on an Intel Pentium 4 HT 3 GHz 1 MB L2 800 MHz FSB processor on an Intel 915GAV motherboard with 512 MB of 400 MHz DDR- RAM installed dual- channel (giving 800 MHz effective output to keep pace with the mu- p's FSB), and I've not had any particular complaints for speed. Except:
We worked hard on enhancing boot time speeds for instace. ;)
Well, I felt Windows XP loaded faster than SuSE 9.3. Maybe boot time is a lot lesser than previous version, but at least on my system Windows XP (Pro, with SP1) boots faster.
Don't forget that XP is a little cheating here. They start to load a lot of system things after a user logs in. Well, same applies when KDE starts ... but at least I can start to work once the KDE splash disappears. On XP you are constantly forced to wait until all the little tools and services and whatever is started.
I just installed SUSE 10 Beta 1 on one machine, and the time from power switch to login screen was 16 *seconds* The time from login to desktop was about the same as in 9.3 I also note that SUSE 10 seems to have a working warm reboot (no BIOS POST on reboot), which at least for me is a first in linux, and that really speeds up reboots