Author: Roy Brunjes
Date: 17:17:46 02/14/03
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On February 14, 2003 at 16:40:11, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 I agree, Win XP does boot faster than my Red Hat 8 (or any other Linux I have run over the last 2+ years). However, examine the memory used by Linux (56 MB on my Red Hat 8 system reported by "free -tm") compared to Win XP (147 MB) ... how often to you boot a system? How often do you access memory? :-) Roy
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