Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

[Tom Ryan]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 mark at mark.mielke.cc wrote:
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> This doesn't happen to us. Perhaps it is a configuration issue?

Its a documented "bug" (its in both MS and Cisco's knowledgebase) in how
our specific catalyst switches initiliaze when a device comes up on the
network.

Yes, there are steps you can take to mitigate the issue, but the end
result is that it still exists and requires workarounds..

Of course, as the problem originally existed, if you booted the machine
and waited a couple of minutes (i.e. got a cup of coffee, finished putting
your stuff away, etc), you never noticed, but if you sat and waited for
the login to appear and quickly logged in (and your machine was a bit
slower, 500mhz anyone), you got bit..

On the faster machines (not using dhcp, etc, etc, etc), the problem is not
as noticeable.

The end result, is that on a 500mhz machine, the synchronous boot of
linux, is much more efficient than windows.

tom