Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

[Brian Craft]

M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 06:26:30 AM -0500, Brian Craft
> (javaman67 at acd.net) wrote:
> 
> 
>>In the Linux world, the bootup time is such a small slice of the pie
>>since it's not done as often, because it's not needed as often.
> 
> 
> This is not true. More exactly, it is only true in the Linux _server_
> / _workstation_ world. A home or SOHO office desktop is only powered
> up, on average, 2 or respectively 8 hours a day.
> 
> I know several companies where turning off the box when you go home is
> an official policy, and most adults I know use the home pc only a few
> hours in the weekend, because they already surfed the Net during lunch
> break to get movie schedules and such.
> 
> In these cases keeping the box 24h/7 on is dumb. Why should I (generic
> home user, no guru, who wants the PC do things for him, not the
> contrary) not turn it off as soon as I've finished? Why should I
> consume 6 times more electricity, or expose 6 times more my data and
> the rest of the Net to attacks to/from my PC coming from the fact that
> I'm not paid to be a security professional?
> 
> Saying that "in the linux world, bootup still is such a small slice of
> the pie" is a sure way to keep linux confined in the server/hackers
> for hacking pleasure niche. Whether one cares is another thing, of
> course.
> 
> Ciao,
> 	Marco F.
> 

Well, I for one, run 3 linux machines at home on a network with a router 
NAT firewall (DSL connection) and leave all 3 on 24/7  365 days a year. 
  I'm not worried about electricity, as I'd prefer the convienence of 
unlocking a screensaver and have instant access.  And for as exposing my 
data, well it sounds like you need a lesson in securing your internet 
connection.   I also work in a corporate setting  (Windows XP) and one 
of the reasons they say to shut down is to refresh the memory/system 
resources at the end of your workday so the local support team doesn't 
get a lot of calls on slow running systems.  Of course this is a Windows 
system resource issue, and is less a problem for linux.

To each their own, I prefer linux in a home setting and execpt for a 
kernel update, these computers don't get turned off, and I've had no 
security issues, for the last 6 years while running linux behind a good 
firewall.



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