Is Linux really faster than MS Windows ?

[Michael A. Peters]

On 03/04/2005 10:11:32 PM, 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 ?

Windows cheats in some respect - allowing you to login before it is  
really done.

For example - after loging in Windows, I have to wait before I can dial  
my PPPoE - and I have to wait before iTunes will start - etc.

If I wait for 3 or 4 minutes after booting before logging it - it's all  
snappy. So windows, while it may be faster than Fedora (there are ways  
to speed up the running of init scripts) - is actually slower at being  
usable than it appears.

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Michael A. Peters
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