Re: What to install first linux10 or win2000

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:13:00 +0000 (UTC), Keith Willcocks wrote:
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> "JohnK" <johnk.dev.null@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:q6CdnT0E5uaiODfeRVny1Q@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Keith Willcocks wrote:
>>> I installed Windows XP and Suse 10. Suse took considerably longer to
>>> install than Windows, more like twice the time.
>>
>> So you didn't install AV, firewall, SP2, all the updates, Office, hardware
>> drivers and all the other things required before you can do anything in
>> Windows then?
>> My XP took about 2 days to get everything set up. SUSE took 4 hours in
>> total.
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>
> Windows included SP2. Virus scanner was AVG - took about three minutes,
> Zonealarm firewall - about 5. The updates came down in less time than
> those for Suse 10. I couldn't believe how long the first two of the four
> CDs for Suse took. Even if you add 10 minutes for installing Office (as
> Suse already includes its equivalent) Suse still took far longer.
> Incidentally, this was on my "messabout" computer and I have done it more
> than once with the same timescales.

My own experince with SuSE 10 varies whether I have the DVD or CD install
media. With Windows XP, I've got things down to about 3 hours give or
take a reboot. With SuSE, I can get a install done in about an hour but
the updating thing takes a bit of time. On CD all bets are off and I've
had numerous files on SuSE 10 that will not install correctly off the CD
media.

The OpenOffice updates are rather significant on SuSE 10. Getting the
goodies installed on XP that I like to have also take awhile. With
Windows XP though, usually installing one update triggers another 3 that
seem to hotfix an issue with the original hotfix. This causes update
exhaustion on my part with XP. Now the new updater also downloads MS
Office upgrades. Those are rather significant in size by themselves.

My fastest setups are installing Debian Etch servers that may end
up doing a few things like backup, web, mail. The slowest thing I have
ever seen is when W2kPRo formats a new drive. Perhaps its transmitting
all my financial information back to Redmond or something :)

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