Re: Looking for an application preloader...

On Feb 22, 9:11 pm, Bit Twister <BitTwis...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:12:49 -0500, Mercury wrote:

Okay, just a few ays ago I got my ass chewed out because I dared to say apps
don't load as fast on Linux as they do on Windows. (Let's ignore the issue
that I didn't deserve any of the crap I got.)

But you did.

So let me cut right to the chase;

About time.

I want Firefox to load as fast on Linux as it does on
Windows. (Which is less than 0.5 seconds for initial launch.) Is
there any way, short of modifying the source code myself, that this
can be done?

You may get more helpful answers when you provide details pertaining
to your problem, desktop (gnome,kde,..), command used, exact error messages,..
vendor release (10.x, 2006, 2007)......

Please, do read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Would you post the output from
cat /etc/resolv.conf

You can go into firefox settings and tell it to not check for updates.
I have it load a local index.html with all the links I normally click
on instead of going off site on startup.

Another feature is I use on KDE is a desktop startup script.
It fires up apps into different desktops.
Three mail clients (thunderbird) desktop 8
newsreader (slrn) desktop 3
browser (firefox) desktop 4
skype desktop 2

Linux is a multi user/tasking system, no sense in it being idle.

Desktop shortcuts jump to the desktop/app so it instant on/load
at all times when logged in.

What you are looking for probably does not exist.

One of the reasons Linux is faster than MS Windows is that we don't
not run lots of stuff in the background. If we start running lots of
applications in the background, (like Firefox), our OS will slow down
- it'll get slow and punchy and all bogged down like MS Windows.

Well, I take that back, we DO run applications in the background, but
not browsers or applications that we are only waiting to be used. We
run server applications and other things that are actually doing
something and not just waiting to do something or waiting to be used -
if it's running, it's running for a reason. We don't run something
just to make it load up faster when we get ready to use it. If it
takes a half second or a second and a half to load an application, we
don't care, it's the overall performance that counts.

You'll do well to realize that measuring the time an application loads
is not the way to benchmark a system. Some desktop users may think it
is, but it's not. Scientific benchmark tests indicate that Linux is 5
to 10 percent faster than Windows, but that does not mean Linux will
start up or load applications faster, it usually won't, but that is
largely because those applications are not already running in the
background.

There are a lot of reasons to use Linux. Yes it's faster but that's
only one of many reasons. (It'd be better / more accurate to say
"Open Source Software", but we'll just continue to say "Linux" for
sake of abbreviation.)

The bottom line is; If someone doesn't want to use Linux, leave them
alone, let them run MS Windows or OSX or what-ever their hearts
desire. If they think their OS is better or faster, leave them alone -
"ignorance is bliss".

I for one am pleased as punch to be a Linux user - I think everyone
should use Linux - but I'm not going to tell them that, or, at least
not unless they ask - I'm going to let others decide for themselves.
If they like what they see, they can try it - if they try it, they
will like it.


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