OpenOffice _is_ an important application, whether we like it or not.
How does one measure and profile application startup other than with
a stopwatch ? I'd like to gather some objective data on this.
> A snappy desktop is trivial with 2.5, even with a slow machine.
> Just stay away from gnome and kde, use a ugly fast
A desktop machine needs to run a desktop enviroment. Only a window manager is
not enough.
> window manager like icewm or twm (and possibly lots
> of others I haven't even heard about.)
> X itself is snappy enough, particularly with increased
> priority.
> Take some care when selecting apps (yes - there is choice!)
> and the desktop is just fine. Openoffice is a nice
> package of programs, but there are replacements for most
> of them if speed is an issue. If the machine is powerful
> enough to run ms software snappy then speed probably
> isn't such a big issue though.
KDE and friends _are_ not quite optimised for speed. That however doesn't
mean that the kernel should not make an effort to allow them to run as fast
as they can.
Regards
Oliver
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