Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

[M. Fioretti]

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.

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