[NBLUG/talk] Re: slow open office startup

[Lincoln Peters]

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 08:38 am, Kyle Rankin wrote:
> I would have to agree that they do seem to at least be trying to address
> the speed issue (I imagine it's their number 1 complaint) with each
> release. I suppose they could look into doing under Linux what's so popular
> to do under Windows these days--just load everything into RAM when the
> system starts to mask the slow startup time.

I think that they already do that with QuickStart.  I think it loads by 
default on Windows but not on Linux (on Debian, I seem to remember that you 
need to be using either GNOME or KDE and run a QuickStart package specific to 
that desktop environment.

Even so, the improved startup time is just an illusion, and would cause the 
computer to start up more slowly.  And if you don't have a lot of RAM, the 
QuickStart might be swapped to virtual memory, possibly resulting in no 
improvement in startup time at all!


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