[geeks] Quick Photo Manipulation Program

[kevin at pipeline.com]

>From my experience, X11 start up time itself isn't so bad, but my MacBook doesn't appear to be very speedy when opening any actual X11 apps.  Both Gimp and OpenOffice open several orders of magnitude faster on an old 1.7 P4 512meg Dell running Slackware than on my 2.x GHz 2gig MacBook running 10.5.  

Come to think of it, even OSX native apps take much too long to open under Leopard.

/KRM
 


On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:34:45AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> [1] Which gave me something of a double-take.  X11 startup time has been
>     nearly imperceptible on every Mac I've used since my blue-and-white.

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