> 
> > You are sure its not a memory problem?
> 
> I am absolutly sure it's not a memory thing.   I timed it under normal
> conditions then switched off the swap space all together and timed it
> again... roughly the same time.

Wow.  No swap, only 32meg real, and you could load X *and* Staroffice????
I'm still trying to convince myself that's possible!

> They vary slightly from machine to machine but at all basicly Pentium 100's
> with 32 megs of ram and at least 1 gig hard drives,  they have S3 video with
> 2 megs of ram.  While doing these tests the network wasn't even hooked up
> ...
> > (I assume that its the same machine that loads SO under wind* in around
> > one minute....)
> 
> Yes, exact same machine(s) (we have 80 of them) that is currently running
> windows/Star office.
> 

Hmm.  I'll download the most 2 recent versions (including the beta) of
SO and see what I can find out...

rc