On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 09:37 -0600, Michael Favia wrote: [snip] > Why do you need 2 machines and not just 1 dual booted machine? You can > rule out chipset and harware diaparity that way? Maybe i am missing > something. Yeah, I guess it's a tradeoff. Launching a copy of Mozilla or OpenOffice on both boxes at the same instant in time would make it easy to see which one launches first. It's also a lot easier to ensure you are doing the same things on each box if you have them side by side. But, yes, you risk some unknown hardware differences doing it this way. The alternative is to be sure you document every click and keystroke and resulting response times as well as things like disk activity. Either way can work. Consider my rough test plan modifiable to your heart's content, provided you explain what method(s) you've used for testing for peer review. ;-) -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets
