[ILUG] Minimal Desktop / Workstation Install [long by now !]

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:14:35PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Patton, Tony thought:
> On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 12:07, Liam Bedford wrote:
> 
> > 
> > ML don't have any spare machines of a PII-400 spec? Bolsh was saying his
> > machine took of the order of minutes to load OpenOffice IIRC, and his
> > was around that spec.
> > 
> > L.
> > -- 
> 
> On my machine here at work it took 26 seconds to open OO Writer from
> clicking on the icon until I could do anything.  And this machine is a
> PIV 1.7GHz with 512Mb RAM.

P166 140Mb RAM, OO files mounted by NFS off a P450 celeron server 128Mb
RAM over 10Mbit network (with possibly dodgy NICs) took 110 seconds from
click to type.  To load from RAM on the same box (ie. exit and then
relaunch) took 45 seconds from click to type.

Conor
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