From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750703AbWAITHm (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:07:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750708AbWAITHm (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:07:42 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.196]:44531 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750703AbWAITHl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:07:41 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=V7EWJz8uWIExSkQ70C/Nhvy9AdVbuUM7nbuwBHUzD9CapxpiADeHNUQuNWeUZdDWpJuQeRy3z3QLA9iv9IecU/Fpl7iamdEhzu/78BlD26BrUChTwbY3gH7B5Ujt4aQi9ZfzIh11l/7WyXIMs/qYV9Y5nup6aGyDNPJx8VdF7Po= Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 20:07:28 +0100 From: Diego Calleja To: Yaroslav Rastrigin Cc: s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk, andersen@codepoet.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linux can't for a long time Message-Id: <20060109200728.fc83190d.diegocg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200601091403.46304.yarick@it-territory.ru> References: <174467f50601082354y7ca871c7k@mail.gmail.com> <200601091207.14939.yarick@it-territory.ru> <200601091022.30758.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <200601091403.46304.yarick@it-territory.ru> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.6 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org El Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:03:46 +0300, Yaroslav Rastrigin escribió: > Overall performance isn't that bad, either, but I just can't understand, why KATE (Kde more or less advanced editor) takes twice as long to start > as UltraEdit in _emulated_ (VMWare) Windows XP running on this same box. > > So, the question remains the same - whom and how much I need to pay to solve abovementioned problems ? X.org and related freedesktop projects would be a good start. There's a _lot_ of things that need to be done for X.org and nobody is doing them, and they benefit all the desktops not just KDE. Fontconfig eats 1/3 of the time it takes to start a kde app (with warm caches), for example.