I assume therefore that Red Hat is way more heavyweight than XP professional, because I have a dual boot system, and I can launch the entire Office suite and lightning speed. The norm nowadays may be 2Ghz+/512Mb, but 650Mhz/384Mb should be more than enough to run basic admin/office applications in RH.
That's more to do with the way that the office applications are structured than anything else. WinXP has gone to great lengths to boot faster and have applications start up faster. It's a fix for crashes :-)
If your operating system doesn't crash at the drop of a hat there isn't much incentive to make stuff start quicker, but there is a lot of incentive to keep it going and to make it fast once it's going.
I don't use MS Office all that much, but I was surprised how sluggish it felt compared to openoffice on the the same machine (I don't use openoffice all that much either). Same thing goes for IE. An IE window comes up almost immediately (well, it would, it's already running), but it's not all that sparking compared to mozillla on the same machine.
jch
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