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.
-- Michael A. Peters http://mpeters.us/
