Performance shock (BS) (ooqstart)

[sara vasquez]

Fro what repository do you get ooqstart. I looke dit up in synaptic and 
could not find it.

Tom Adelstein wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 22:22 -0400, Andy wrote:
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>>>Windows is just so fast to use by comparison. Firefox starts
>>>up almost instantly and doesn't hog the cpu once a few tabs are open,
>>>windows explorer (atrociously designed though it is) lets me get
>>>instant access to any part of the filesystem, unlike nautilus which
>>>kind of oozes around. It occurs to me that due to my pleasure re so
>>>many aspects of using linux (esp Gnome, which I love) in general, and
>>>Ubuntu in particular, I had just got used to how slow it is.
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>>I've notices this too.  Windows definitely boots faster and often has
>>a faster application start-up time.  Comparing the start-up time of
>>OOo2 Writer (which is faster than 1.x) to Word is frustrating.  I use
>>Word sometimes at work on a MUCH slower machine than my laptop, and
>>Word is definitely snappier than Writer.
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>>>Don't hate/attack me for saying this. I'm certainly not going back to
>>>Windows (there's too much I can't do on it without impossibly
>>>expensive software), and I'm not criticising Ubuntu (whose developers
>>>have done a great job). I don't really care either if you 'disagree'
>>>with my comparison (it wouldn't mean anything to me, because on my
>>>system, the speed difference is unarguable). But I'd love to know if
>>>there's either any general/fundamental reason why linux is just never
>>>going to be as fast Windows as a desktop, or if there are any things I
>>>might do to speed it up.
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>>No hate here.
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>>I really hope that as Desktop Linux continues to mature, this will
>>start to even out.  The boot time of the computer isn't as important
>>in my view as the start-time of applications like OOo.  I know one
>>thing that Windows does is pre-load certain parts of IE and Office.  
>>One thing you can do to speed OOo up is to download ooqstart.  There
>>is a Gnome version that you might like.
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>>>Two caveats -- it's not an issue of unnecessary services (I'm
>>>comparing fresh installs here), and I don't want to use a ligher
>>>environment (Gnome's clean design and facilities have become integral
>>>to the way I work).
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>I just accidentally saw the contents of this post and I could not
>believe what I saw. 
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>I've been testing desktops for over two years and one half years now and
>to say that Microsoft Windows runs faster than Linux one the same
>configurations is just wrong. 
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>If in fact you are experiencing such an aberrant behavior, then you know
>how to tune Windows and don't know how to configure Linux.  
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>Otherwise, this thread is a Microsoft disinformation effort. Either way,
>it's despicable. If you don't know enough about Linux to tune up Open
>Office, then you need to do you homework.
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>Also, if you're running lots of services -- as in server mode -- compare
>the performance of Linux to Windows 2000 server running the same number
>of services.
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>No way Windows on a comparable platform outperforms Linux. I've proven
>it hundreds of times. 
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