Performance shock (BS)

Sat Apr 30 00:11:48 UTC 2005

On 30/4/05 01:02, "Kevin Krumwiede" <kjkrum at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:57:43 -0500
> Tom Adelstein <adelste at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've been testing desktops for over two years and one half years now
>> and to say that Microsoft Windows runs faster than Linux one the same
>> configurations is just wrong.
>> 
>> If in fact you are experiencing such an aberrant behavior, then you
>> know how to tune Windows and don't know how to configure Linux.
> 
> Umm... OK.  Ubuntu takes about three and a half minutes to boot; XP Pro
> takes about one.  Startup time for Firefox is also about three times
> longer on Ubuntu than XP.

What are you running it on? Hoary boots in 87 seconds on my Dell Dimension
2400!

Baza