Fedora has a lot of stuff added to the kernel; just look at all of the messages it gives at boot. I have several Linux machines, as well as two XP machines. I find that after a while, the XP machines tend to take more time to boot, while the Fedora box tends to maintain a constant boot-up time. (Then again Fedora releases patches too, but it still doesn't seem to have as much of an effect so as to slow it as rapidly as Windows.) Currently my main workstation is running Gentoo (I still use Fedora for some things), and I have to say it boots faster than any other OS I've ever used. This is because I don't have a lot of things added to the kernel. Ben On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:41 +0530, 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 ? > > Parameshwara Bhat. >
