Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

[Brian Craft]

Parameshwara Bhat 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.
> 

Personally, I wouldn't be looking at bootup times, as much as to which 
OS will stay up longer without a reboot, or being able to apply updates, 
new programs, security patches, without having to reboot.  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.

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Brian Craft

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