Re: Why the DOS has many ntfs read and write driver,but the linuxcan't for a long time

From: Diego Calleja
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 14:06:17 EST


El Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:03:46 +0300,
Yaroslav Rastrigin <yarick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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