Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

[Don Dupy]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 mark at mark.mielke.cc wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 08:58:31AM -0500, Tom Ryan wrote:
>> Which by the way is exactly what Windows does, and its been known to cause
>> quite a few problems for us especially in concert with our catalyst
>> switches. The default setup for Windows is to bring up the login screen
>> before the network is ready (stupid!), since windows caches the network
>> credentials (if logging into a domain), users can login AND login scripts
>> will not process correctly (network drives won't mount, etc)..
>
> This doesn't happen to us. Perhaps it is a configuration issue?
>
>> its just another ms trick that doesn't work in the real world.
>
> It's a trick that *does* work, quite successfully, and one that Linux
> could implement (and has a few working implementations of).
>
> Even if Windows did reliably fail as you suggest for all users (as I
> said - never happens to us, and we do use login scripts, and require
> network logins), it doesn't invalidate the approach. It just means that
> their dependency analysis was not complete. For network logins, they
> only need to ensure that the network login startup processes execute
> before login is allowed. It has no effect on the other processes that
> may not be required for login.
>
> Cheers,
> mark
>
>


(sniff sniff sniff)......... somone leave the window open ???
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Don Dupy

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