Two ways Microsoft sabotages Linux desktop adoption

[Mike McCarty]

Andy Green wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> 
>>from its local disc. I just clicked on the "OpenOffice.org
>>Writer Word processor" icon on the task bar at the bottom
>>of my screen, and it was 58 seconds before it was ready
>>to take a keystroke, on my 2.71 GHz Linux machine. On my
>>400MHz Win98 machine, Word loads in less than 5 secs.
> 
> 
> What does
> 
> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz
cpu MHz         : 2700.948

> say on your fast box?  If that isn't broken (one laptop here reacts to
> cpuspeed by being permanently at the lowest frequency), what's your HDD
> like on that box?  How many fonts installed?  58 seconds sounds all wrong.

# fdisk -l
 

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
 

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1        8625     4346968+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2   *        8626       60915    26354160    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3           60916       61118      102312   83  Linux
/dev/hda4           61119       77545     8279208    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           61119       76505     7755016+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           76506       77545      524128+  82  Linux swap

# mount
/dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)

# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5              7633264   5713092   1532424  79% /
/dev/hda3                99075     24602     69358  27% /boot
none                    124044         0    124044   0% /dev/shm

I trimmed useless information from the output. (Like partition
doesn't end on cylinder boundary, and none mounted on....)

I don't know how to check fonts. If you do, I'd be glad to
check. I did an

$ apropos font | less

and didn't find anything that looked like it would list it.

Mike
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