Performance shock (BS)

[Robert L Parker]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 07:37 -0700, John Ughrin wrote:

> P.S. I never found OfficeXP loaded that quickly
> anyway. ::shrug:: Makes no difference to me now, I
> have no use for that behemoth on my HD.

Wonderfull.
> 
> P.P.S. One of the reasons I finally got into Linux was
> the Knoppix distro that came with Marcel Gagn's
> _Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death
> Goodbye!_  Which, oddly enough, ran faster from the CD
> than XP did from my HD.

Maybe not so odd. The Knoppix build orders all of its files to create
the fastest boot and I think OO is up the front too because it is no
slouch starting up. If you do something a bit eccentric like compiling
some small app you start to become aware that you are running from a cd.
IMO Knoppix is one of the best sales tools for Linux in existence.

Bob