Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

[Mark Panen]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:41:32 +0530, Parameshwara Bhat <pbhat at ongc.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yeah Windows is super fast, i just sit on this mailing list to read
Fedora mesages, i love Windows, Windows rocks, Long live Windows. Dump
all the other distros you mentioned and use Windows.