Performance testing (pass 1)

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On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 09:10, Stephan Schutter wrote:
> I compared Windows XP and RHL 9 on a Dell Laptop (C610) 
> 
> CPU:	1000MHZ
> RAM:	256MB
> 
> Software: 
> 
> OS:	WinXP			RHL 9
> 	Open office		OpenOffice
> 	MS Office 2k		MS Office 2k
> 	
> 
> Software startup times:
> 		WinXP		RHL 9
> 		  (s)		 (s)
> OS bootup	37		70	
> Login		8		21
> Def Browser	1		7
> Word 2k		4		6
> Open Office	10		21
> Def TextEdit	1		3
> File Browser	1.5		1.5
> 
> Timings are average of 5 launches. Word on linux, suprisingly, is snappier 
> than OpenOffice... Open Office is faster on Windows than linux... 
> 
> Soooo.... do I need to ask?
> 
> 1. If Open Source writes better software; then why is it fatter and 
> slower?
> 
> 2. Is any one at RHL working on desktop performance?
> 
> These are some of the sugestione that I may need to answe to when I 
> present this and further data to my managers. Gys... what should I say?
> 
> One of the original sugestions of why to use Linux is that it could buy 
> you longer life on the old hardware... this does not seem to be the case. 
> 

I believe that Microsoft preloads some of the office code during
login/startup.  This same same complaint, "it takes so long to load
word", was leveled at MS years ago.

Robert Thomas