Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

spmirowski spmirowski at shaw.ca
Sat Mar 5 17:42:57 UTC 2005


>From: Alexander Bostr?m <abo at kth.se>
>Subject: Re: Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?
>
>Sounds like false expectations. I don't recall anyone claiming that
>Fedora Core boots quickly. On the contrary, actually. There's been talk
>about how to speed it up in upcoming releases.

Fedora does boot faster than Mandrake =P   If you change your
boot scripts to start up services in parallel, startup time
should drop off a whole lot.  I believe most distros don't do
this out of the box though.

Stephen






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