csch:

I'll run with the 45 secs from lilo to login for XP on this box.... It's about right... I can get my glasses out of their case and onto my face....

The default install of SUSE 9.1 I have, (and you know it's default because I have no clue as to how to alter it..... ), is about 1:30.... About twice as long. I also find stuff takes longer in many cases, (trying to alter network card stuff for example), takes longer... It seems to always want to look for hardware or something while XP did that at the beginning and doesn't do it every time you want to change config, (it monitors for HW changes and picks them up as it goes along)....

I dunno... I don't see any great great advantage in *nix except for some of the more "advanced" security tools.... But then they are so badly supported that it usually means buying new hardware, (wireless NIC's for example), in order to use the tool in the first place... In many ways that doesn't make sense unless you have a high risk environment.... But even then a properly configured system in Win "whatever new" can be secured quite well.... Ok, it might need some _good_ ports of some *nix apps, (snort etc.), but it is equally doable. I'll concede that point every time.....

When you install it, it doesn't come with only definitions for the 7 or 8 viruses for *nix you know...
It doesn't??? No wonder it's such a hog....