Sorry for the double posting. I'm working from home. I think my subaru
is running windoze, I get seemingly random system crashes, sometimes it
will just reboot going down the the highway. Also I once had to
reinstall the engine, I think the highway dept repainted the roads.

Anyway back to the topic. Yes ,it is possible to have a slow Linux GUI.
Especially if you chose "install everything" when installing Linux.
Plain fact is My Linux at home boots at least 3x faster than Widoze 2K
at work. Even logging in is faster. My friend's PC is older, it has a
K6-2 w/ 64M Ram, but not terribly slow. After all it is a Pentuim II
grade and better yet faster than a Pentium because it is AMD. But if it
were running Linux I promise it would run faster, becuase I would help
him set it up.

Also, Linux can't be setup in five minutes as someone else stated, but I
can set up and fully configure all the software including networking,
office, databsse, programming and email support in 2-3 hours. This is
not possible with Windoze. Trust me I have been doing exactly that in
Windoze for years. It requires at -=LEAST=- a full work day. Yes, there
is Ghost for Windoze, but I could do that with Linux too. Simply do a
mkisofs on the system you want to copy.

Linux defense rests,
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Hutchins
Sent: Fri 3/1/2002 6:25 PM
To: Brian Densmore; kclug@kclug.org
Cc: 
Subject: RE: FW: KCLUG --> KCMUG?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB@ctbsonline.com]

> ... everything I did in M$ was so 
> -=painfully slow=-. I have gotten spoiled by how much faster 
> everything is in Linux.

Oh bull$hit.

> Then we also did a defrag on the disk, we let that run overnight.

So you're talking old, slow hardware.

> True it takes KDE a while to come up after logging in, but each app
> isn't really slow. Some are, but not many. At least the ones I use.

As long as you don't try to browse the net, use a GUI file manager, or
mail
client, or do most of the normal GUI tasks, yeah, sure, it's "faster".
So's
DOS.

GUI speed is NOT one of Linux' bragging rights - as long as we use the
X11
model, it can't be, more integrated systems will outperform it on
equivalent
hardware.

Yes, I've seen a Linux box that appeared faster than a Windows box - but
it
was Linux on new hardware vs. four or five year old hardware running
Windows
98.