RAM (and Speed)

[Ari Torhamo]

ke, 2005-03-16 kello 19:53 +0100, René L. Reingard kirjoitti:
> Dear Vince,
> 
> you are fast in reply - you guy must sit in front of the computer half  
> your life! right?
> correction: this machine has 256 RAM. but, anyhow.
> 
> the loading in the beginng (before entering name ans password) takes time  
> (at least compared to XP on the same machine). i guess about one minute  
> (?). after name and password, Gnome starts within 20 to 25 seconds (?). i  
> haven't checked the real time so far.


I was helping one of my brothers today to install Windows XP on his PC
and noticed that in XP the booting process doesn't stop when you see the
desktop. Instead you will have to wait for quite a while after that to
be actually able to launch an application. You may click to start it,
but it won't start until the boot process is over. In Ubuntu, when the
desktop comes visible you are ready for work. I don't have a dual boot
system, so I can't time the boot processes, but if some one has done it,
it would be interesting to hear the results.

Regards,

Ari

P.S. When this brother of mine soon buys a new hard disk, he'll probably
move to Ubuntu for everything else and use Windows just for games (and
perhaps for making MIDI music). I have already two of my brothers using
Ubuntu now (they were using Windows before :-)