Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:55:37 02/15/03
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On February 14, 2003 at 20:17:46, Roy Brunjes wrote:
>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
That's right. Both at home (1.6GHz P4 Toshiba laptop) and at the office (800MHz
P3 Compaq) I have 256Mb of RAM. I do not even use a swap file in Linux, and
never had any problem!
Try to do that with Windows! :)
Christophe
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