Re: teletext biting the dust?

In article <508487efc9noise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jim Lesurf wrote:
It takes about 2 minutes for my bloatware Windows XP machine to boot up
with Internet Explorer's home page set to the BBC News site. And that
is a 2.8GHz machine with oodles of RAM and disc space for video editing.
By contrast, I can *READ* 9 or 10 Teletext pages on my TV in the time
the PC takes to give me an Internet choice. That is information,
productivity in Microsoft speak, obtained in the time it takes Gates and
Co. just to wake up their bleary eyes! Of course, it isn't counted in
the advertisements for Vista or 7.

The above made me curious so I just went and checked.

A machine I have runs Ubuntu 9.04. Uses a 1.73GHz Pentium M. 1Gig of RAM.

From pressing the powerup button to getting the desktop took 38 seconds.
Then took one second more for me to start my preferred 'ROX' desktop and
apps. Then took another 6 seconds to start FireFox, and get it to show me
the main BBC Radio iPlayer page ready for me to select what I might want to
listen to.

I've found Ubuntu to be the most user-friendly version of Linux that I've
tried yet, and currently have it installed on three machines. One dual-boots
with Vista, one with the trial version of Windows 7, and one on a netbook
with XP. Without even needing to do any timings, it's clear that in every
case Ubuntu is a lot quicker to load than Windows on the same machine.

Rod.
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