Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

[Parameshwara Bhat]

On my home computer and office computer, I have logged the time taken upto  
logging in, it turns out that Ms windows(XP) is faster than Linux. On both  
computers, dma is turned on.On my home computer, I have SUSE, Fedora and  
Knoppix (debian) installed and on office computer, only Fedora. I have  
measured with all the distros and while knoppix is faster of the distros,  
still it doesn't measure upto Windows in speed. Both fedora and SUSE take  
about one and a times longer time, evrything else remaining same.

Any comments ? Or am I missing something ?

Parameshwara Bhat.