Linked by David Donley on Wed 9th Jun 2004 18:53 UTC
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris I have been using Linux since 1993. I installed the first version of Slackware on a 16MB 386sx-25. Since then I have been using it almost exclusively on one or more of my PCs. So I consider myself as a bit of an expert. I have been using computers since 1982 mostly PCs, but also VAX mainframes and SPARC systems. Operating systems (and GUIs) I have been using include CP/M, DOS, Windows from Version 2 to XP, Geos, Beos, SCO Unix, Solaris, OS/2 and quite a few Linux Distros.
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35 SECONDS?
by Anonymous2 on Fri 11th Jun 2004 21:09 UTC

To load an office suite??

On XP, with Office preloading turned OFF, Word starts in exactly 2 seconds, afterwards enough shared libraries appear to be loaded to give Excel and PPT subsecond start times.

This is Office 2003 btw, on an 1800XP with 512MB.

Hmmm...