Performance shock (BS)

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 4/30/05, Kevin Krumwiede <kjkrum at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:57:43 -0500
> Tom Adelstein <adelste at yahoo.com> wrote:
<snip>
> Umm... OK.  Ubuntu takes about three and a half minutes to boot; XP Pro
> takes about one.  

As has been mentioned, windows brings up the gui, but you can't do
anything with it until it finishes booting in the background. Smoke
and mirrors.

> Startup time for Firefox is also about three times
> longer on Ubuntu than XP.  A lot of people have experienced similar.  In
> fact, a couple months ago there was a long thread about reducing boot
> time and why XP's is so much faster.
> 
> Krum
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Regards,
Russ