Re: Speeding up a machine

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 03:27 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:

I recall from when I moved to Linux, that my biggest complaint was that opening cmd.exe on Windows was instantaneous (literally), and Konsole takes a good second or two to appear, even with prelinking and such. I'd like to know why Linux is so slow, as well.

Konsole, specifically, is slow to start because it's starting up and registering bindings with the DCOP server on the local screen.

Note that OpenOffice is equally slow on both Windows and Linux. The OO.o project is spending the vast majority of their time, currently, trying to fix that problem.