Hallo,
on http://www.vnunet.com/News/1138118 Suse's Dan Homolka is cited with:
Dan Homolka, technical sales manager at SuSE, claimed that the vendor's Linux environment actually runs Microsoft Office faster than Windows "mainly because Linux is much better at context-switching".
Suse Window support is based on Codeweavers Cross Office.
Does this stand a real world test?
Bye
Considering that afaik Office runs as one process, I can't understand how context-switching performance would make any difference.
If anything, it should run slower as Wine isn't as optimized as Windows is, and Windows apps will be optimized for fast threading, as Windows apps make far greater use of threading than multiple processes but Linux threading support is yet another area that it's in flux.
On the other hand, getting rid of Clippy is a feature that makes up for any slight problems Wine may (or may not) have with Office :)
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 08:32, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
Hallo,
on http://www.vnunet.com/News/1138118 Suse's Dan Homolka is cited with:
Dan Homolka, technical sales manager at SuSE, claimed that the vendor's Linux environment actually runs Microsoft Office faster than Windows "mainly because Linux is much better at context-switching".
Suse Window support is based on Codeweavers Cross Office.
Does this stand a real world test?
Bye
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:32:45AM +0100, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
Hallo,
on http://www.vnunet.com/News/1138118 Suse's Dan Homolka is cited with:
Dan Homolka, technical sales manager at SuSE, claimed that the vendor's Linux environment actually runs Microsoft Office faster than Windows "mainly because Linux is much better at context-switching".
Well, you know sales statements, piped through unreliable reporters etc.
The announcement does not include that statement: (englisch) http://www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_linux/office_desktop/index.html (german) http://www.suse.de/de/private/products/suse_linux/office_desktop/index.html
Suse Window support is based on Codeweavers Cross Office.
Yes.
Does this stand a real world test?
Well, we hope so.
Ciao, Marcus (end of advertisement ;)
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