The state of the 2006 Linux desktop
Were you to walk around LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week, for almost every person you'd see sitting, you'd see a laptop in front of them. And, if you're a snoopy person, like me, you'd also see that about half of those laptops were running Linux.
That doesn't sound like that much? Think again. Even a year ago, Linux-powered laptops were a rarity.
My unscientific survey revealed that about a third of those desktops were running the newest Ubuntu, another third were running either openSUSE or SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop), and the final third were Freespire or Linspire. I also saw a scattering of Xandros and other Linux distributions.
They all have one thing in common. These were all from the new generation of desktop Linuxes that has appeared over the course of this summer.
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It's true
Yeah, I bought a Acer Aspire with 1Gb ram and a 1,73 Ghz Pentium with preinstalled Windows XP home, I am a unpatient person and to wait for at least one minute after booting in desktop (measured it from switch on to desktop 40 seconds, after that the one hell of 45-60 seconds a can use the damm thing, you can click but you have only the hourglass and wait) This was a fresh install. After installing some necessary programs it took longer . Ok, I knew linux I used it on my destktop. Ubuntu ... fresh install 45seconds inclusive login. Some tweaks, new kernel Colins patches on 2.6.16 and I got 25seconds in to working not wating desktop with fast running apps. On the laptop worked everything out of the box, wifi, lan, bluetooth, graphics sound and acpi etc. So my question here, where the hell is the problem? I was not able to tweak the windows in normal loading times (tried not to load the acer e-poermanagement with 90mb in ram the little thing became hot as a fryinpan), but the "cancer of IT world" (cit.Steve Ballmer) gets to functiong desktop faster and normal temperatures. Again Measured on fresh installs of windows and ubuntu with stop watches. I think linux gets each release better and better for laptops and desktops.
P.S. Sorry for the english, no englishman ;-|