My friend, If we continue to defend disadvantages with prejudice or dogma, we'll have never improvements. 1- Doesn't Windows scan for new hardwares? 2- Is any antivirus working inside SuSE to slow down it?!! Or there may be a firewall that makes applications run late! 3- Isn't the NTFS journal-based fs? In the other hand, file-copy processes in linux show that the hard-drive and file-system are working well. Thank you for your notice, Bahram. -------------------------------- "Ben Higginbottom" wrote: -------------------------------- 1- So in other words your linux installation is running services it doesnt need if its acting as a desktop. I'd also imagine its still running hardware scan at boot. 2- So in other words it isnt fully patched, firewalled and has antivirus running. Let alone have useful programs installed such as an office suite, a decent webbrowser and so on. 3- It does however contaminiate the kernel, and the module is loaded anyway at boot. 4- Hitting the konsole icon on kooldock takes it about 2 seconds to lauch on my laptop. At the time it was running at 800Mhz and had 84 tasks running when I ran top on it. 5- Suse 9.1 ships with Gnome 2.4, as does RH9. Suse does not provide 2.6 rpms, but they do host ones built by a 3rd party but do not support or recommend them. The 2.8 rpms have just been built by James Ogley on his rather spiffy ew laptop according to his blog and are available via apt. 6- My desktop (usually xfce4, but today kde) is plenty fast for me. If its not for you, then use something else. 7- What filesystem are you using fro Xp? 98 will be fat32 - a non journaled fs, which will be faster but at the cost of data integrity. 8- I dont have to, even on my old 500Mhz box. 9-Try a stage 2 gentoo install, it'll optimise for your system, and given your badwidth and cpu keep you busy untill at least march. Regards, Ben _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
