Stephan Schutter wrote:
I compared Windows XP and RHL 9 on a Dell Laptop (C610)
[...]
One of the original sugestions of why to use Linux is that it could
buy
you longer life on the old hardware... this does not seem to be the case.
Windows XP use a set of NTFS utils(defrag, cache manager,...) to
load binaries and to boot faster: more information at 'Prefetch' secction:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/12/xpkernel/print.asp
Gentoo has a comparative about load times with prelink and w/o it:
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/performance.xml
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