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.