Subject: Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux
	can't for a long time
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>, Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
       Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 01:44 +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> Sounds like a broken configuration to me. Of course the usual array of
> hardware specs, configuration, filesystem, free RAM, etc. all play
> into this, but no KDE application, including the originally cited
> Kate, takes longer than 1s to start on this machine (1.6GHz P-M, 2MB
> L2, 400MHz FSB, 1GB PC2700).
> 
> Hell kfm is probably a hell of a lot more bloated than Nautilus and
> it's pretty fast to start first time (1-2s), and cached it's pretty
> much instantaneous (I'd say less than 400ms). Fast enough, no?
> 

I don't think it's a broken configuration, just a slow machine (600MHz
VIA C3).  Windows XP screams compared to Linux on this thing.

Lee

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