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Subject: Re: Free yourself from the Borg

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 13:40:11 02/14/03

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On February 13, 2003 at 10:09:57, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On February 12, 2003 at 15:48:29, Martin Andersen wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>Another thing is the slow boot into Linux (Redhat), compared to Windows XP. It
>>shouldn't take that long.
>
>Not that I know why the boot time is important at all but my Linux box boots in
>about 20 seconds. (14 seconds for the login prompt and 6 seconds to login
>(typing included ;)
>
>Sargon



To be as objective as possible, and you know I prefer Linux, my RedHat takes
more than one minute to get to the graphical login prompt. I'm using a 1.6GHz P4
on Toshiba laptop. Same at the office where I have a 800MHz PIII in a Compaq
box.

That sucks.

Windows XP boots much faster.

I don't know how you manage to boot that fast with Linux, but I doubt it's the
general trend anyway.

Shutting the OS down is also very long under Linux. I admit I do not understand
why.

But I still prefer Linux. Boot/power down time is not that important.



    Christophe



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