This message was posted on Usenet, NOT JLAforums, & on Sat, 01 Jul 2006
14:48:58 +0200, Roy Culley wrote:
> begin risky.vbs
> <t6qca2tm9m9tpg305i53uafoqhvv57g8fo@xxxxxxx>, OK <otto@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 13:37:43 +0200, rgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Roy Culley) wrote:
>>
>>>begin risky.vbs
>>> <1334409.ynedPbjC2H@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz
>>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Intel Core Duo T2400 + Linux
>>>>
>>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=503&num=1
>>>
>>>My new company laptop has Core Duo T2600 @ 2.16GHz with 2MB L2 cache.
>>>2GB ram, 100GB SATA disk.
>>>
>>>The old laptop has Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz with 1MB L2 cache,
>>>1.5GB ram, 2 x 60GB IDE disks.
>>>
>>>With Gentoo I can compare package installation times using genlop:
>>>
>>> Sat Jun 3 15:51:21 2006 >>> www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4
>>> merge time: 1 hour, 8 seconds.
>>>
>>> Sat Jun 24 01:10:08 2006 >>> www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4
>>> merge time: 19 minutes and 1 second.
>>>
>>> Sun May 14 09:36:54 2006 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r1 merge
>>> time: 9 hours, 12 minutes and 38 seconds.
>>>
>>> Sun Jun 25 01:07:01 2006 >>> app-office/openoffice-2.0.2-r1 merge
>>> time: 2 hours, 53 minutes and 31 seconds.
>>>
>>>Over 3 times speed increase. Nicht schlecht.
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong: do I really read that it took NINE hours and
>> change to install OpenOffice, and still TWO hours on your latest
>> bleeding edge dual core laptop?
>
> Compiled from src. Can't do that with windows can you. Of course, I could
> have downloaded pre-built binaries. Choice wins again.
>
>> You can call than fast when it takes 9 minutes instead of hours. Try
>> Windows XP and Microsoft Office :-)
>
> And I end up with SW that is optimised for my HW. You get SW that is
> 'optimised' for viral infection and, as Gates' said, bit rot and where
> over 5% of windows boxes crash more than twice per day.
>
> I'll take speed, stability and security over windows anytime. If you had
> any sense you'd do the same. :-)
HE gets:-
1] An OS that's decided by the board of M$, & is "one-size-fits-all".
2] An OS that isn't even his, when he's laid out lots of ££££ or $$$$ for
"privilege" of using it.
3] An OS that needs propping up with AV tools just to keep it working.
YOU get:-
1] An OS that's optimised for *your* system & *your* use.
2] An OS that is *yours* to do with as *you* please.
3] An OS that doesn't need *any* propping up to keep running.
--
I used to like a good joke.
What happened?
I thought there was a better way, so I
stopped using Windows & switched to linux.
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