Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> When something runs well, do you really need it to run faster ? :)

No, you are right. But I don't consider that 5 or 10 minutes to start
X-Plane, or 3 seconds to load a termnial or Gedit, or open a composing
window in evolution to answer a message on this lise, is fast enough. 
So I want them to make these actions faster, because I do these things
all the time. I don't worry about the time it takes for the machine to
boot, because I don't sit by the machine when it's booting, but for
everything else, I see no fun in waiting forever... :-)
Obviously, dragging a Nautilus window on the desktop is perfectly
smooth/fast, so I have no interest in making this faster as I would not
be able to sense the immprovement...


> Do you really time these? *grin*

Yes, the first time I tried opening my Excel file with Openoffice, it
took litterral 10 minutes. It froze the entire machine, no tjust OO. But
I did not want to reboot the machine, so I decided to wait and see. I
waited 10 minutes, and have never used OO spreadsheet anymore as a
consequence. :-/
Why it takes 10 minutes with OO, and only 2 seconds with Excel, I do'nt
know. I just hope that what ever is wrong with OO, will be fixed
soon ! :-/


Vince